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Is it manslaughter if a man dies and womanslaughter if a woman dies?
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Boyslaughter and girlslaughter and babislaughter it would get so rediculous, lets just stick with the usual.
It wouldn't come up if the term didn't have "man" in the name I guess. The phrase does sound a little dated next to "murder two" but I'm glad the distinction betwen pre-meditated killing and the other kind is preserved in this country.
With an iron maiden to bring her?
"Let her go...let her go...let her go..."
manslaughter is still manslaughter not humanslaughter?
but fireman became firefighters
midwives are still midwives not birthaiders??
That made me laugh out loud for some reason!
Sounds much more interesting then 'murder'. They should have called murder 'manslaughter'.
Jerry Seinfeld does a bit about this.
Not an interesting post, but a true one.
Which in turn comes from the way the Latin word "manus". while retaining its original meaning of 'hand', also came to mean a 'worker', and thence to mean 'a person' generally. So the "man" in manage, manhole, manufacture, etc., simply means any person, regardless of sex.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
Oh God, like we really needed another one.
We avoid all this trouble in Scotland by calling it culpable homicide.