[lit-ideas] Grue, Bleen, and the Shades in Between
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:23:09 EDT
Judy quotes from the online resource:
>English-speaking
>anthropologists affectionately squish “green” and “blue”
>together to call Welsh an example of a “grue” language.
Must say I find the use of 'affectionately' slightly patronising.
>JL's argument is that grue is part of the philosophical lexicon, not the
>anthropological
Well, these affectionate English-speaking (does that mean, derogatorily,
monolingual?) anthrpologists are starting to interest me.
At least we know _one_ philosopher who thought 'grue' witty -- and I think
the coined the word around the 1950s. I don't know dates for this 'affectionate
English-speaking anthropologists'.
And as Judy notes, Joycian (or Joyceish, as she prefers) predates them all,
I would think, being 1939
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