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Quisling, Benedict Arnold, Babbitt?<br>
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Wayne Leman wrote:
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">And there is also the English word
"quixotic".</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Wayne Leman</font></div>
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<p>How about Messalina, the wife of emperor Claudius? Did she made
a category of harlots?<br>
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The another male name is Don Quijote / Don Quixote. There is even
adjective<br>
donquixottish.<wbr>, exacly like napoleonic.<br>
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<b><i>Fritz Goerling <<a href="mailto:Fritz_Goerling@sil.org">Fritz_Goerling@<wbr>sil.org</a>></i></b>
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<div><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">Hayim,<O></O></span></font></div>
<div><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" 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
color="black" face="Arial"><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>
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style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Fritz<O></O></span></font></div>
<div><ST1><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" 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>
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What other names of wives of famous men can be a characteristic of a
category?<br>
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Hayim<br>
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<b><i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Fritz
Goerling <Fritz_Goerling@<wbr>sil.org></span></i></b> wrote:<font
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<div class="MsoNormal"><FON size="3" face="Arial" color="black"
t=""><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>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" 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>
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