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<DIV><SPAN class=347321301-27032005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Yes.
Very good. Nobody ever said metaphors have to be consistent.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=347321301-27032005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Ron</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Fritz Goerling
[mailto:Fritz_Goerling@sil.org]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, March 26, 2005 12:29
PM<BR><B>To:</B> lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE:
[Lexicog] Diminutive suffixes (pejorative or endearing)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=593090919-26032005></SPAN>R<SPAN class=593090919-26032005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>on,</FONT></SPAN></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=593090919-26032005>How about an appendix "Being good
(lovable) is being
small"?</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=593090919-26032005>That would fit terms of endearment:
sweetie, baby, kitty, cutie.</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=593090919-26032005>Fritz
Goerling</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=511313718-26032005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>One of the semantic phenomena that we must grapple with in
lexicography is extended metaphor. If we can define a diminutive suffix as
"a small X", then it would be subject to the extended metaphor "Good is big,
bad is small." From these metaphors we have such expressions as "small
minded" and "big hearted." It would stand to reason, then, that any
diminutive could be pejorative. A good dictionary should note whenever an
idiom or derivative is based on an extended metaphor. I also recommend that
we include an appendix of metaphors:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=511313718-26032005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Being bad is being small:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=511313718-26032005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>feel small, little courage, little imagination, small fry, small
minded, smalltime, small wonder, weakling </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=511313718-26032005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Ron Moe</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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