[lit-ideas] Re: SOS or Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 11:43:08 -0500
EH in response to Andy Amago's "I as an English speaking non-dog lover"
wrote:
So you consider yourself a lover, just not of dogs?
I think you misread him. I'd translate it: "As an English speaking lover
who is not a dog...." the phrase 'not a dog' is clearly the object of the
verb 'is' whereas 'English speaking' is an adjectival phrase modifying
'lover'. The question of whether all speakers of English are ipso facto not
dogs is left open. But obviously the writer believes that all speakers of
Spanish are all dogs or at least close relatives (witness the cute little
Chihuahuas in every Taco Bell commercial) which is probably why Andy and the
majority of Americans want to stop them from coming here. Enough with the
dogs, already! They shout. I think I'm right in my translation, but then
I'm not bilingual.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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