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Re: Meta, Meto, Simil, Figurative

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 26, 1999, 4:45
Ed Heil wrote:

> Sally -- > > I'm really curious now; what bad press did George Lakoff get that > caused you not to read him? > > Ed Heil -------------------------------- edheil@postmark.net
It was not "bad press," really... just a sense that some linguists were peeved with him for all the usual reasons... sold a popular book, making lots of money, rumors that he didn't give all the best credit where credit was due. It wasn't from any sense that he was a bad linguist. It was actually only because I was at Berkeley where he taught, heard all these things which may have been unfair, and never really got around to reading the book on Women etc. That's all. I have since dumped those prejudices, and now I don't have any time to read anything. S.C.