Re: [lojban] RE:literalism

[Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@MATH.BAS.BG>]

michael helsem wrote:
> >From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
> > > And in any case, English does not really have any prefix
> > > for derogatives that I know of.
> 
> i hate to be the one to point this out, but english does have
> a convention of using national adjectives to derogatize a noun.
> the classic example is "Dutch courage". there are at least a
> dozen others.

That's a different story though.  `Dutch courage' is not really
courage (or at best it is a marginal variety of courage).  Most
other such `national adjectives' also seem to indicate that the
description doesn't really apply.  By contrast, {malglico} from
{mabla glico} means `x1 is English (in origin), which is bad'.

--Ivan