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Re: Kamakawi Comments

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Friday, March 15, 2002, 13:41
From: "David Peterson" <DigitalScream@...>
> So sometimes I'll start with one thing, and derive > and see what I come up with, not worrying about whether or not I'm > duplicating. Usually it'll come out with a different sense--like how > "unhappy" doesn't mean the same thing as "sad", though logically they should > be identical.
Not if "be sad" is just a patientless form of the verb "be angry".... Of course the happy ~ sad opposition is not necessarily a cultural universal ... could just as easily be happy ~ calm or happy ~ needy or happy ~ unlucky... depending on what exactly the word translated as 'happy' actually means. *Muke! -- http://www.frath.net/