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It would have been slightly weird terminology even back then; it seems to have always been much more common to use the word 'children'.
by xanderlewis 3y ago
It would have been slightly weird terminology even back then; it seems to have always been much more common to use the word 'children'.
- penteract 3y agoI suspect that English isn't the first language of the authors and there has been a translation from a language where all nouns are gendered. The phrase "an hexagon" also suggests that they don't pronounce 'h'.
- 0x264 3y agoThat's correct. It's (and they are) French.
- xanderlewis 3y agoAh — that makes sense.