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<div><STRONG>As Shakespeare once said, "Let it be said." Whatever is repeated becomes idiomatic.</STRONG></div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Melissa Axelrod <axelrod@unm.edu></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><!-- Network content --> <DIV id=ygrp-text> <div>Quisling, Benedict Arnold, Babbitt?<BR><BR>Wayne Leman wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid0d0801c76d95$2c741bf0$8400a8c0@wlemandesktop type="cite"><!-- Network content --> <DIV id=ygrp-text> <div></div> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And there is also the English word "quixotic".</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wayne Leman</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(0,0,0) 2px solid"> <DIV id=ygrp-mlmsg> <DIV id=ygrp-msg> <DIV id=ygrp-text> <div>How about Messalina, the wife of emperor Claudius? Did she made a category of harlots?<BR><BR>The another male name is Don Quijote / Don Quixote. There is even adjective<BR>donquixottish.<WBR>, exacly like napoleonic.<BR><BR><B><I>Fritz Goerling <<A href="mailto:Fritz_Goerling@sil.org">Fritz_Goerling@<WBR>sil.org</A>></I></B> wrote: </div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><!-- Network content --> <DIV id=ygrp-text> <DIV><!-- Network content --></DIV> <DIV class=Section1> <DIV id=ygrp-mlmsg> <DIV id=ygrp-msg> <DIV id=ygrp-text> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black">Hayim,<O></O></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black">How about a Penelope
figure,</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black><SPAN style="COLOR: black">a faithful wife who waits patiently for her husband to return? On the male side: someone is a Hercules. <O></O></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Fritz<O></O></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><ST1><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Hayim Sheynin</SPAN></FONT></ST1><FONT color=black><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> asked: <O></O></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>What other names of wives of famous men can be a characteristic of a category?<BR><BR>Hayim<BR><BR><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic">Fritz Goerling <Fritz_Goerling@<WBR>sil.org></SPAN></I></B> wrote:<FONT color=black><SPAN style="COLOR:
black"><O></O></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV id=ygrp-text> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FON t color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In some languages the names of wives of famous men have entered the language<O></O></SPAN><O></O></FON></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">to characterize a certain kind of woman: like Xanthippe (Socrates’wife) is used in English and German.<O></O></SPAN></FONT><O></O></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><O></O></SPAN></FONT><O></O></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Fritz<O></O></SPAN></FONT><O></O></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV
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