[Lexicog] Digest Number 286

[David Tuggy]

I have heard it comes from Chretien, but I have also been told it
probably does not. In any case, if it does, it probably did not arise in
the same way, i.e. by a low-status word coming to mean a negative
evaluation. More likely it would have been a kind of euphemism: a
negatively evaluated designatum dignified by a high-status word. Does
that make sense?

I perhaps should have mentioned the word "fundamentalist", which is much
further along the road to being a (mere) smear-word.

--David Tuggy

Lameen Souag wrote:

> David Tuggy wrote:
>
> >It is interesting to see in the press nowadays signs of "Christian",
> >which is now low-status for many people, acquiring negative
> >connnotations, which may develop into full-fledged meanings.
> >--David Tuggy
> >
> >
> Not unprecented... you know the etymology of "cretin"?
>
> Lameen
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