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Well, no, 'mens' translates to 'human' and wouldn't normally be used in this sentence (it'd put unnecessary emphasis on the species of who would be programming,
by contravariant 6y ago
Well, no, 'mens' translates to 'human' and wouldn't normally be used in this sentence (it'd put unnecessary emphasis on the species of who would be programming, which just feels weird).
I can't think of a Dutch version of the same sentence that wouldn't make the subject explicitly male (well, there are some archaic versions that would use 'alleman' but I can't think of one that wouldn't sound weird).
- tomsmeding 6y agoSupposing, of course, that this is an ESL problem, I'd expect the original Dutch sentence to have used the Dutch word 'men', which means the same as the English 'one' as in "one must not ...", or the 'man' in 'mankind'.