From graywyvern@hotmail.com Sun Oct 22 15:03:50 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: graywyvern@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_1_0); 22 Oct 2000 22:03:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 15807 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2000 22:03:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 22 Oct 2000 22:03:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.237.100) by mta3 with SMTP; 22 Oct 2000 22:03:48 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:03:47 -0700 Received: from 63.25.135.102 by lw7fd.law7.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:03:47 GMT X-Originating-IP: [63.25.135.102] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] RE:literalism Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:03:47 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Oct 2000 22:03:47.0988 (UTC) FILETIME=[F40EA540:01C03C73] From: "michael helsem" >From: John Cowan 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. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.