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This is a very annoying thread. <br>
Melissa Axelrod<br>
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Hayim Sheynin wrote:
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<p>Fritz,<br>
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I use the name <font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Xanthippe </span></font>almost
every day. I relay this name to wives of artists and scholars who do
not give them opportunity to work on their projects,<br>
but force them go for jobs to bring money home. Such wives do not
appreciate the talents of their husbands and do not recognize their
work as necessary.<br>
This is definitely the name for the category of women.<br>
What other names of wives of famous men can be a characteristic of a
category?<br>
<br>
Hayim<br>
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<b><i>Fritz Goerling <Fritz_Goerling@<wbr>sil.org></i></b>
wrote:</p>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">David,</span></font><o></o></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><o> </o></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">“Battle-axe”
is a good one. No equivalent in German. In some languages the names of
wives of famous men have entered the language<o></o></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">to
characterize a certain kind of woman: like Xanthippe (Socrates’wife) is
used in English and German.<o></o></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><o> </o></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Fritz<o></o></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><o> </o></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">My dad used to say that a little
incompatibility wasn't such a bad thing in a marriage, especially if he
had the income and she had the pattibility.<br>
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Do German, Polish, Russian, etc., have anything parallel to the English
"battle-axe" for a certain kind of woman?<br>
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--David T<br>
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