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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=062135920-26032005></SPAN>P<SPAN
class=062135920-26032005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=3>eter,</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=062135920-26032005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>It strikes me how often you use the word
"simply" in this discussion.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN class=062135920-26032005>I
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=3><SPAN class=062135920-26032005>am more convinced
about David Tuggy's </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=3><SPAN
class=062135920-26032005>differentiated
analysis.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=3><SPAN class=062135920-26032005>Fritz
Goerling </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE><TT>On 26/03/2005 18:17, Fritz Goerling wrote:<BR><BR>><BR>>
...<BR>> > <BR>> (PK) <BR>>
"Hireling" is simply someone who is hired. "Princeling" is a
diminutive,<BR>> not in physical size of course but in importance. Of
course any<BR>> individual diminutive word can become pejorative, but the
primary<BR>> meaning is certainly diminutive, like its cognate German
-lein. <BR>><BR>>
<BR>> (FG) Well, how about weakling?
<BR>>
BTW, not each -ling in German is pejorative but can
be<BR>> endearing (like darling =
Liebling).<BR>>
Maybe we can agree that from a diminutive either
an<BR>> endearing or a pejorative term
can<BR>>
develop.<BR>><BR>A weakling is simply a weak person, just as a hireling is
a hired <BR>person. Nothing necessarily pejorative. But I agree with your
final comment.<BR><BR>-- <BR>Peter Kirk<BR>peter@qaya.org
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