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>From: demers@cs.ucsd.edu (David DeMers)
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Subject: Re: Language (was Biological Sex Differences?)
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In article <1992Sep9.124758.11996@cci632.cci.com> dwp@cci632.cci.com (Dana Paxson) writes:
>In article <1992Sep9.034138.15488@news.media.mit.edu> minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:
>>In article <MELBY.92Sep9005959@dove.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP> melby@dove.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby) writes:

>>>Perhaps a wider array of colorful terms (specifically, synonyms of
>>>"to bludgeon") are used in sports than in most other American cultural
>>>establishments? :-)

...

>>More generally, I have found only a very few verbs that reflect any
>>appreciable discredit upon the subject-agent.  It is almost impossible
>>to admit to a fault without using the passive, or other form of
>>periphrase to be evasive.  Could this be a subtle way of imparting a
>>society's values to its members?  Weird.


>In this light, George Luger's (and another author's) book _Metaphors We
>Live By_ 

Er, George Lakoff (& Mark Johnson)

Lakoff is very entertaining.  "Women, Fire and Dangerous Things"
perhaps is more to the original point of this thread ... :-)



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