Re: CHAT: cultural interpretation [was Re: THEORY: language and the brain]
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 4, 2003, 20:03 |
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From: "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: CHAT: cultural interpretation [was Re: THEORY: language and the
brain]
> Quoting Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>:
>
> > >but we still, by and large, have more liberties than most people
> > >elsewhere in the world.
> >
> > Try being a chronically-ill partnered Gay non-Judeochristian man in the
USA
> > for a while, then we'll speak about how liberties in the USA compare
with
> > those in Europe.
>
> Have you ever been to, say, Istanbul, or Moscow? By Europe, you
> must surely mean "a few metropolitan centers in western Europe,
> such as Amsterdam, Berlin or Paris". The idea of giving homosexuals
> privacy in their own home is by no means universal in Europe (the
> continent).
I assume he meant the European Union. Just like when you say 'America', you
mean the USA.
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