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eru on Oct 7, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Would you hire a coder just by looking at ...

German `man' is actually gender-neutral. Or do you talk about `Germanic'-English `man'?

ElongatedTowel on Oct 7, 2013 [–]

I think he didn't mean the actually word "man", but its translation "Mann" which isn't gender-neutral at all.

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