Re: Female characters
- From: "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:50:43 -0400
On Thu, 31 May 2007 08:48:56 -0700, Lucy Kemnitzer
<ritaxis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:girt53p3890cup8jn5hent78j9okaa50l7@xxxxxxx> in
rec.arts.sf.composition:
On Thu, 31 May 2007 01:33:50 -0400, "Brian M. Scott"
<b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> seems to have said:
On Thu, 31 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT+1, Tina Hall
<Tina_Hall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:MSGID_2=3A240=2F2199.13=40fidonet_48f4b0c0@xxxxxxxxxxx>
in rec.arts.sf.composition:
David Friedman <ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Some time back, I raised the question of why women warriors were so
common in modern fantasy (including my _Harald_, as it happens). It
got diverted into an argument about how common they were
historically, but I thought it might be worth going back to the
original question.
One word: eMANcipation.
Oh, please. The <man> in <emancipation> has nothing to do
with <man> 'a (male) person'; it's ultimately from the same
PIE root, *man- 'hand' that gave rise Latin <manus> 'a
hand', via Latin <manceps> 'purchaser', etymologically 'one
who takes by the hand'. (The Latin agent suffix <-ceps> is
related to English <have>.) The associated verb is
<mancipa:re> 'to sell, to transfer'; with the addition of
the prefix <ex-> 'out, forth' it becomes <e:mancipa:re> 'to
transfer; to declare a son free and independent; to
emancipate; to surrender, abandon'. (The prefix is
regularly reduced to <e:-> before consonants other than <h,
c, p, q, s, t, f>.)
But she still gets to make puns, Brian. You should know that.
I'm not at all convinced that she was making a pun. This
*is* Tina, after all.
Brian
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