Re: [tied] Re: How old is the machismo in Romance languages

From: george knysh
Message: 38709
Date: 2005-06-17

--- pielewe <wrvermeer@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, mkapovic@...
> wrote:
>
> > Anybody who
> > knows anything about IE linguistics knows that
> this has nothing to do
> with
> > man supremacy, patriarchal culture etc.
>
>
> Pflichtlektüre in this connection: Dwight Bolinger,
> Language, the
> loaded weapon: the use and abuse of language today,
> 1980.
>
> Once I'd read that book, I realized that even the
> most irritating
> feminist is still unreasonably moderate given the
> situation.

*****GK: I on the other hand can't believe some of
these posts... Political correctness evolving into
some form of creeping insanity...*****







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