Maslow's grea t quotation

[Dennis Preston]

Ron,

No; "butter" is "masLo," where the cap "L" stands for the Polish
"barred L," pronounced in Modern Polish  (in most dialects) like
English /l/ (i.e., Polish "butter" is MAHS-woe) - caps show stressed
syllable. The first syllable of the name "Maslow" is the same, but
the second is "loff" ("w" is usually /v/, but final "w" is devoiced
and = /f/).

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>Is "Maslow" the Polish word for 'butter'?
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>In a message dated 5/24/07 1:38:30 PM, goranson at DUKE.EDU writes:
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>>  >> According to the staggeringly informative Yale Book of Quotations, the
>>  >> quotation is the following:
>>  >>
>>  >> It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat=20
>>  everything
>>  >> as if it were a nail.
>>  >>=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Abraham Maslow, The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissa=
>nce ch. 2
>>  >> (1966)
>>  >>
>>  >> Fred Shapiro
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>>  Small comments. FWIW, I looked for earlier citations, but found none. The
>>  sentence (p.15-16) begins "I imagine it is tempting...." I found no=20
>>  indication
>>  in the book (acknowledgements, notes, etc.) that he is consciously quoting
>>  someone earlier. Elsewhere he uses quotation marks relatively frequently.=20
>>  The
>>  text above this mentions an automatic car washing machine that is quite
>>  good at
>>  that job. "But it could do _only_ that, and everything else that got into=20
>>  its
>>  clutches was treated as if it were an automobile to be washed." The senten=
>ce
>>  following our quotation: "In a word, I had either to give up my questions,=
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>>  or
>>  else to invent new ways of answering them." I heard Maslow speak
>>  decades ago at
>>  Brandeis; an estimable man, I think.
>>=20
>>  Stephen Goranson
>>  http://www.duke.edu/~goranson
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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor
Department of English
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