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- From: eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (eleanor.j.evans)
- Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:03:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.200351.26183@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <BzL08y.G9D@demon.co.uk> <1992Dec21.113855.21684@spdcc.com> <1992Dec21.150903.17299@panix.com>
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- In article <1992Dec21.150903.17299@panix.com> mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik) writes:
- >joe@spdcc.com (Joseph Francis) considers the influence of the effect
- >of imposing language differences on people's
- >thoughts. I have some questions about his examples, but that's not
- >the real issue for me in what he wrote:
- > >(1) Germany, 1935-194?. Ever read German w.r.t. foreigners (i.e.
- > >Jews)? The language, indeed, quickly adapted to the needs of its
- > >users, to blame and denigrate 'foreigners'. Now, was this because people
- >
- >Denigrate?
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- Wow, Mara, that was subtle. I stared at the screen a good five minutes
- before my brain went *click*. And it was audible, too.
-
- Does that mean I should strike "denigrate" from my vocabulary? Or that
- it's an excellent example of (1) above. Or both?
-
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- Piglet, sort of pink, with lots of tiny horizontal stripes....
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