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Menscg (was: Re: Re: [Marxism] "our" troops' moral duty)
> (P.S. for those unfamiliar with the word mensch, it's gender neutral,
> means human being.)"
>
> Actually, it's Yiddish for "man" (×××××). :) It's used to mean "good
> human being," but it's certainly not gender-neutral.
>
The Yiddish mensch is obviously derived from the German Mensch, which is gender
neutral and means human being.
see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch
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