Re: vulgarisms
| From: | B.Philip.Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 13, 1998, 21:03 |
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At 22:09 -0500 on 11.11.1998, Steg Belsky wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:02:53 -0500 John Cowan <cowan@...>
> writes:
>
> >The general pattern in English is that *domestic* animals are
> >insulting: "dog", "cow", "bitch", "horse"; but not "wolf", "lion",
> >"tiger"; still less "rhinoceros", "stegosaurus".
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> >John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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>
> God forbid that "stegosaurus" should ever become an insult! :)
>
> -Stephen (Steg)
Somehow it seems more plausible that "T Rex" would.
BTW: ever thought of getting yourself a pet lizard and start claiming that
there are live stegosauri? ;)
/BP
[Please forgive my all my late replies! On October 30 my computer got the
notion that there was no sc thing as a "Hard drive" inside it... ;-(]
B.Philip. Jonsson <bpj@...>
Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant (Tacitus)
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