Oct 14, 2015 · In general sense Man refers to the masculine gender specifically and Human would refer to both men and women. And, regarding why HuMAN has man in it, i don't think it is sexist. Because the word Man was initially a gender neutral term, like the present day word, person, but later got changed. Source : Man was originally gender neutral

Mar 13, 2011 · Traditionally, the word man has been used to refer not only to adult males but also to human beings in general, regardless of sex. There is a historical explanation for this: in Old English, the principal sense of man was "a human being," and the words wer and wif were used to refer specifically to "a male person" and "a female person ...

Theologically and religiously, personhood is extended to deities (including the Trinitarian concept of most branches of Christianity, that there is a single god of three persons), aspects of deities, spirits such as elves, djinn, and fairies, the spirits of departed people, genii loci, and many other entities, sometimes in complicated ways (e.g ...

The term human spider includes women. It is at least a tenable argument that the term spider-man does not. Of course, traditionalists like myself would consider the word man can include women, e.g. Man is the measure of all things. But the comic book character to which Spiderman refers, has a female counterpart, Spiderwoman. Admittedly this ...

So then by example, human is not capitalized because it is not a proper noun, and not derived from a proper noun. Vulcans, Minbari, and Timelords are humanoid beings. There are also reptilian beings, silicon beings, and energy beings, but we don't capitalize any of those types of beings (human, humanoid, reptilian, silicon, energy, etc).

You can’t really use those two as a basis for a new word, because that’s not what they mean. Centaur comes from old name the Greeks had for a horse-riding tribe of people (only later did it become a mythical half-man/half-horse creature), while Minotaur is made up of Minos, the king of Crete and the husband of Pasiphaë who gave birth to the Minotaur, and tauros ‘bull’.

Nov 20, 2014 · "Human" is from Latin humanus, and has nothing to do with men, for which the Latin word was vir. Substituting "person" for the "man" in "human" makes about as much sense as replacing "supersonic" with "superchildic"; if you really wanted to go that ridiculous route, you should have suggested "huperchild". –

Dec 21, 2020 · tl;dr– The term "man-in-the-middle" is already completely gender-neutral when understood. Those who'd misinterpret "man" as an adult male human are liable to have similar misconceptions about other aspects of the term, so it'd probably be most helpful to address these sorts of misconceptions together. Specific suggestions:

With man-hour or person-hour, you multiply the people times the hours to get the man-hours. Just like foot-pounds, acre-feet, or kilowatt-hours. Miles/gallon or stitches/inch follow a similar convention. Labor isn't already a unit that is used to measure anything. –

Jul 26, 2017 · Can we drop questions of man-made, human-made or the sense of mankind, not male person? In the context of this Question, trying to differentiate between "human-made" and "man-made" says what, exactly? Most of what it says is that we should ignore etymology and historical usage, and try to appease a few neologists by distorting the language. No ...