garbage vs. trash

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Jan 22 07:00:55 UTC 2001


>
>The figurative uses of the terms are interesting.  E.g., "talking
>trash" and "talking garbage" don't mean the same thing to me.  And
>one can be trashy but not garbagy.

Nor do we insult people by calling 'em "poor white garbage".



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