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- From: nj@magnolia.Berkeley.EDU (Narciso Jaramillo)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.sex,soc.culture.british
- Subject: Re: Homophobia
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- Date: 29 Jul 92 00:12:45
- Organization: Postcarcinogenic Bliss, Inc.
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- In-reply-to: rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu's message of 29 Jul 92 02:49:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.024939.1109@spool.cs.wisc.edu> rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon) writes:
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- > [...] Maybe in a few years we can look forward to the word "ratchet" having
- > 57 different meanings, as noun, verb, adjective, adverb and pronoun. [...]
- > This is growth? So is cancer.
-
- Poor dear; your mind is a traitor to your cause.
- You know, it invents new meanings for words every time you hear or use them.
- This is due to the ubiquitous miracle we call Context.
-
- > Fuck. You.
-
- Case in point.
- Does this really mean the same thing it did every other time you said it?
- Does it indicate the same emotional attitude as it did when
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- * your ex-girlfriend spat in your face?
- * the Jehovah's Witnesses came by?
- * you wandered down the street, naked, alone, betrayed by
- everyone and everything you once held dear, and a homeless
- person approached you and badgered you for spare change?
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- If it does, then you are a singularly one-dimensional person.
- More likely, you just thought these were all "the same meaning."
- But I'd hesitate to equate defiance, rage, annoyance, and utter despair;
- and I'm sure the same epithet can express 53 other situational varieties.
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- nj
- --
- [Rictus Hep doesn't worry about semantics because semantics worries about him.]
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