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<DIV><TT><SPAN class=363381109-01062004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Good
observation about regional varieties, Rudy,</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=363381109-01062004><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN></TT> </DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=363381109-01062004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>My point
was that labeling tells us more about the person labeling than the thing
itself.</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=363381109-01062004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>This is
expressed in the following sayings:</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=363381109-01062004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>One man's
meat is another man's poison (British English?)</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=363381109-01062004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>One man's
junk is another' man's treasure (American English)</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=363381109-01062004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>One man's
owl is another man's nightingale (German)</FONT> </SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=363381109-01062004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>One man's
elephant is another man's rabbit (Jula - West
Africa)</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=363381109-01062004></SPAN><SPAN
class=363381109-01062004><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=363381109-01062004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>And I
might add:</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=363381109-01062004></SPAN></TT> </DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=363381109-01062004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Your tax
cut is my tax increase.</FONT> </SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=363381109-01062004></SPAN><SPAN
class=363381109-01062004><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=363381109-01062004><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Fritz</FONT> </SPAN><BR>><BR>> Tax Cut / Tax Scheme -
When one party proposes a tax cut, the opposing party<BR>> calls it a tax
scheme. In the English language, the word scheme is normally<BR>> used to
describe a plot to rip people off. It is not used to describe a plan<BR>> to
let people keep what is theirs.<BR><BR>This is a lexicographical issue, as well
as a sociopolitical one. It is<BR>obvious that this snip from the internet is
from an American source,<BR>attributing to "the English language" a meaning of
"scheme" that is at<BR>least largely US (I don't know about Canada and the rest
of the<BR>Commonwealth). In British English, "scheme" is commonly used for what
in<BR>American English would be "plan". Had Britain launched the Marshall
Plan,<BR>it would have been the "Marshall Scheme". Nothing nefarious is
implied.<BR>Lexicographers must always be alert to differences in regional
varieties.<BR><BR> Rudy<BR><BR></TT><BR></DIV>
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