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If the word MAN is politically incorrect, will we have to rename MANhattan?

Posted - November 5, 2018

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  • 44604
    Humanhatten...sounds stupid.
      November 5, 2018 6:09 PM MST
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  • 16763
    Huperchildhattan.
    HuMAN isn't PC, neither is perSON.
      November 5, 2018 7:27 PM MST
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  • 13071
    My PC is a Human. or should I say maybe, Huperson.
      November 6, 2018 1:13 AM MST
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  • 13071
    How does Personhatten sound?
      November 6, 2018 1:12 AM MST
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  • 44604
    Perfect
      November 6, 2018 7:45 AM MST
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  • 13277
    But the question, however, doesn't?
      November 6, 2018 2:39 AM MST
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  • 6098
    I'm sure eventually they will.  We can't have anything named after "genocidal" people. 
      November 5, 2018 6:26 PM MST
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  • 13071
    Or overweight transvestites wearing the wrong earrings with their thong.
      November 6, 2018 1:14 AM MST
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  • 6098
    Heaven help us. 
      November 6, 2018 4:38 AM MST
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  • 5391
    The English word for male, —MAN—  has nothing to do with the etymology of the place name Manhattan. 

    Who says the word MAN is politically incorrect? This post was edited by Don Barzini at November 6, 2018 7:46 AM MST
      November 5, 2018 6:28 PM MST
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  • 16763
      November 5, 2018 10:17 PM MST
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  • 13071
    I get a lot of this when I try to be funny.
      November 6, 2018 1:17 AM MST
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  • 5391
      November 6, 2018 4:38 AM MST
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  • 13071
    Its all the rage at major Universities today. That and crying booths that provide a safe place for a good cry before a test on what gender correct words are no nos today.
      November 6, 2018 1:15 AM MST
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  • 5391
    Yes, witness the rise of a generation of emasculated pu**sies. Woe are we. 
      November 6, 2018 4:41 AM MST
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  • 53504

      You sit around thinking about men too much. Meet me at our usual spot and I'll scratch that itch for you. 

    ~
      November 5, 2018 10:17 PM MST
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  • 13071
    Is that where our enlisted men go?
      November 6, 2018 1:11 AM MST
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  • 53504

     Quit stallin'; I'm on a budget, so we only have an hour. 

    ~
      November 6, 2018 1:14 AM MST
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  • 13071
    Can we do it in the car and just let me keep the money? I need some socks.
      November 6, 2018 1:16 AM MST
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  • 53504

      The car is rented too, and last time they charged me double to cover the cleaning fee in order to get the smell out. I'll take you out to the woods, if you're into that type of thing . . . wait, Carbie!  Come back, Carbie!  Why are you running away? Where are you going?

    ~
      November 6, 2018 1:25 AM MST
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  • 4624
    It's not incorrect when referring to an adult male human.

    I think Personhatten would sound a bit weird.

    The name Manhattan comes from "Manna-hata", as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on Henry Hudson's yacht Halve Maen (Half Moon). It is theorized that the word might derive the Lenape tribal word Mannahatta, possible meaning "island of many hills." 
    In English, the variations of a word follows the norms for the language of its origin, so "Manhatten" could never be incorrect,

    unless somebody one day discovers that it means something quite different and inappropriate in Lenape. ;)
      November 6, 2018 12:01 AM MST
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  • 13071
    Or Manchester. They could call it Man Chest Hair.
      November 6, 2018 1:17 AM MST
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  • 16763
    Feminize that and its boobser.
      November 6, 2018 2:41 AM MST
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  • 22891
    nnaybe
      November 6, 2018 11:13 AM MST
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