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Re: logic vocabulary

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Friday, December 24, 2004, 6:19
From:    Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
> > Class 1: Active neutral words / masculine things and persons > > Class 2: Stative neutral words / feminine things and persons > > This is *arbitrary*. There is no logical reason that I know of why "active > neutral words" (whatever they are) should be put into the same class as > "masculine things and persons", and "stative neutral words" put into the > same class as "feminine things and persons".
Exactly. Incidentally, in Madagascar, it is the women who are considered to be more 'active' in the sense of being obligatory on them to carry the public face of a family and be more 'aggressive' in various kinds of rhetorical styles. Men are supposed to stay at home -- quite the opposite attitude of, say, many Islamic societies. ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637

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