Comment on These dames wanting inclusivity

socsa@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Mmmmm… ramen

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• boydster@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ooo help me learn today if you don’t mind… Where does this prefix grouping come from?

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  • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah it doesn’t make much sense logically though. Men here is 们, the plural marker for people. Wo (我) is I or me, women (我们) we or is, ni (你) is you, nimen (你们) is you (plural), ta (他/她/它) is he/she/it, and taken (+们) is they. Some other variants exists, and there’s specifics on the usage.

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    • socsa@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They say fluency happens when you make your first cross language pun, so riffing on a mediocre meme feels like halfway there.

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  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Correct; wo, ni, ta are the singular forms I, you, he/she/it. Adding the -men suffix turns it into the plural we/you/they.

    So literally, ‘we’ are ‘women’.

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• OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hmm. Wōmen… Men of Wō… I don’t mean to be racist but their triads freak me out.

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