atw: Re: The Queen's English?
- From: Warren Lewington <Warren.Lewington@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 16:45:03 +1000
Yep. A spade is still a bl&&dy shovel
Suffragettes were a little different to feminists. Feminist is a more
benign term for social terrorist.
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atw: Re: The Queen's English?
Philosophical difference here - the point I was making is that you can't
change the meaning by changing the word.
Portables, became demountables, became relocatables, but at the end of the
day, they are still bloody hot, noisy, not "fit for purpose" - sheds.
A suffragette became a women's libber, became a feminist, but at the end
of
they day they are all women who were crapped off by a society that was
denying them basic human rights.
You can't change the reality by changing the word. Relocatables will be
given another name, feminists will be given another name, but nothing else
will change.
ck
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Lewis
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Subject: atw: Re: The Queen's English?
Christine Kent:
> And it's all in the words. The meaning is the same.
But words are almost the only way -- certainly the most powerful and
flexible
way -- that we can express meaning. Change the words and you change the
meaning: that's the whole point. What's the same is the underlying
reality.
But psychologists argue that perception is reality; if you can change
perception by changing the meaning by changing the words, perhaps you
really
are changing reality, at least the subjective reality of the reader or
hearer.
Michael Lewis
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