Re: logic vocabulary

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.

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