Well it doesn't belong to Mankind. That's why we have puny ships. Those aliens and the fuckoff space robot police? I dunno, sky might be theirs. Probably why they try to murder you for messing it up too much.
It's just an annoying thing that comes from us having ended up with "man" also commonly meaning "person" for reasons that I would assume boil down to the past being even more patriarchal.
It's actually more of the opposite! "Man" used to refer more generically to all of human kind ("woman" comes from a term that meant "female human") and then took on the connotation of males specifically later. Of course the underlying reason for that is probably still patriarchal.
what was the equivalent to "woman" that meant a male human?
It's just an annoying thing that comes from us having ended up with "man" also commonly meaning "person" for reasons that I would assume boil down to the past being even more patriarchal.
It's actually more of the opposite! "Man" used to refer more generically to all of human kind ("woman" comes from a term that meant "female human") and then took on the connotation of males specifically later. Of course the underlying reason for that is probably still patriarchal.
what was the equivalent to "woman" that meant a male human?
wait, people were expecting to-scale planets? did they also expect scale versions of galaxies and solar systems?
jesus
well you have a faster-than-light spaceship, so realistic astronomical scale shouldn't really be an issue in terms of traveling tedium or whatever. Making it smaller than realistic scales is either an aesthetic choice or a limitation of the hardware, and that doesn't seem particularly easy to predict to me.
It's just an annoying thing that comes from us having ended up with "man" also commonly meaning "person" for reasons that I would assume boil down to the past being even more patriarchal.
It's actually more of the opposite! "Man" used to refer more generically to all of human kind ("woman" comes from a term that meant "female human") and then took on the connotation of males specifically later. Of course the underlying reason for that is probably still patriarchal.
what was the equivalent to "woman" that meant a male human?
werman and wyfman are the words, IIRC
with the latter being responsible for the funky pronounciation of "women"
and the former being why I'm unreasonably annoyed at Sonic the Hedgehog turning part-wolf and being called a "werehog"
were is the part that means that they're human, dammit
I think it might also just be wer and wyf, but I imagine that it's hard enough to look up Old English etymologies while you're actually in an Anglophone country.
Google says yes, though.
Old English wīf ‘woman’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wijf and German Weib .
I also thought it might have something to do with "waif", but it turns out that word means something completely different from what I thought it did and is also entirely unrelated?
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Oh nice! I'm gonna name a planet that in No Man's Sky.
Who am I kidding by the time I get around to playing NMS the whole fucking universe will be named and cataloged.
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what was the equivalent to "woman" that meant a male human?
I hope it's "moman".
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well you have a faster-than-light spaceship, so realistic astronomical scale shouldn't really be an issue in terms of traveling tedium or whatever. Making it smaller than realistic scales is either an aesthetic choice or a limitation of the hardware, and that doesn't seem particularly easy to predict to me.
werman and wyfman are the words, IIRC
with the latter being responsible for the funky pronounciation of "women"
and the former being why I'm unreasonably annoyed at Sonic the Hedgehog turning part-wolf and being called a "werehog"
were is the part that means that they're human, dammit
I think it might also just be wer and wyf, but I imagine that it's hard enough to look up Old English etymologies while you're actually in an Anglophone country.
Google says yes, though.
I also thought it might have something to do with "waif", but it turns out that word means something completely different from what I thought it did and is also entirely unrelated?