84) Man's rule over woman and thing Written by Rainer: rainer.lehrer@yahoo.com Learn languages (via Skype): Rainer: + 36 20 549 52 97 or + 36 20 334 79 74

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Man's rule over woman and thing "Woman" means married and "Miss" unmarried, with the exception of nuns. How embarrassing it could be when a thirty-, forty- or even fifty-year-old woman was still to be addressed as "Miss". The social structure had changed and the language or its use followed or adapted. The language and its use thus represent a kind of mirror of the living conditions of the user. However, there are certain words or grammatical constructions that apparently never change. Or have we been so retarded in the development of our mental faculties or human relationships? In many languages ​​with a difference in the declination between cases (casus) and genders (genus), the form of the personal pronoun remains the same in the case of neutral nominative and accusative. Er-ihn-ihm, sie-sie-ihr, es-es-ihm, sie-sie-ihnen. To better understand where this construction comes from, all one has to do is to compare which verbs things can be associated with. They can lie, stand, hang, fall ………. = So these are all verbs in which things have no direct influence on other things within a sentence. And what can be done with them? You can see them, buy them, take them with you ……. . In one sentence: „Der Dichter schreibt ein Theaterstück.“ or: Das Theaterstück schreibt der Dichter.“ Even if we do not know in the second sentence who or what the acting part of the sentence is, it is clear that the poet is of course writing something. It is probable that the conviction prevailed that things do not need a special form for the accusative either, because the sentence’s content remains understandable without it. But now, for example, German makes no difference in the feminine nominative and accusative case either. The reason for this is surely to be found in the social structure of the Germanic tribes of that time: A man married a woman, in meetings only men had the right to talk ... That means that a woman was linguistically treated like a thing. The same form of the majority in the nominative and accusative could perhaps be explained by the fact that either only one person or the leader acted as a symbol for a group and thus initially excluded a majority form of acting. Back to list!

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