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<DIV><SPAN class=984424319-19022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff> From
Fritz Goerling to Peter Kirk </FONT></SPAN><BR><BR>One Azerbaijani
expression for "coward" also means "lung". Well, perhaps <BR>not quite. The word
"ciyer" can mean either "lung" or "liver", and they <BR>are distinguished if
necessary as white ciyer = lung, black ciyer = <BR>liver. But white-ciyer as one
word (aghciyer) means "coward" - but a <BR>better literal rendering would
probably be "white-livered". And this can <BR>actually be used in English as
well, although more common but with the <BR>same basic meaning is
"lily-livered".<SPAN class=984424319-19022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=984424319-19022005></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=984424319-19022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> Good example.</FONT> </SPAN><BR><BR>A
common figurative expression for "courage" in many languages <BR>corresponds to
"manliness", <SPAN class=984424319-19022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=984424319-19022005></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=984424319-19022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>
Can you give examples? I would assume a woman can be as
courageous.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=984424319-19022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=984424319-19022005> </SPAN>whereas "woman", used of a man,
implies <BR>cowardice. <SPAN class=984424319-19022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=984424319-19022005></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=984424319-19022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>
Not just that. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=984424319-19022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>
Here is an interesting example. The founder of a Christian</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=984424319-19022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>
organization (whose name I do not need to mention here) challenged
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=984424319-19022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>
soldiers on the battle-field by calling them "cowards", and by praising the
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=984424319-19022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>
courageous women </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=984424319-19022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>on the mission field. He himself left the theatre of war
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=984424319-19022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>
and became an </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=984424319-19022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>ambassador </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=984424319-19022005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>of love.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV> <BR>Peter Kirk<BR>peter@qaya.org (personal)<BR>peterkirk@qaya.org
(work)<BR><A
href="http://www.qaya.org/">http://www.qaya.org/</A><BR><BR><BR><BR></TT></DIV><!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| -->
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