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Re: [lojban] RE:literalism
From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
li'o
> 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.
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