cross-linguistic metaphors (fwd)

[shokooh Ingham]

While we are at it, what do your languages do for high and low pitch.  In Persian boland 'high' and khafif 'light' mean 'loud' and 'quiet', while 'high' and 'low' are rendered by naazok 'thin' and koloft 'thick'
Bruce

--- On Mon, 21/2/11, Anthony Grant <Granta at edgehill.ac.uk> wrote:

> From: Anthony Grant <Granta at edgehill.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: cross-linguistic metaphors (fwd)
> To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU
> Date: Monday, 21 February, 2011, 10:43
> Hi Mary:  Apparently so; I
> believe the expression was coined by Richard
> Dawkins.
> 
> Best, Anthony
> 
> >>> Mary C Marino <mary.marino at usask.ca>
> 21/02/2011 06:24 >>>
> Hello Anthony:  As far as I know this is not current
> anywhere in N
> America - I certainly haven't heard it in Canada.  If
> 'bright' has
> come
> to mean 'atheist', does it follow that 'dim' means
> 'believer' (of
> whatever faith community)?  Mary
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 20/02/2011 9:54 AM, Anthony Grant wrote:
> > David: I don't have any good counterexamples, but I
> assume you know
> the
> > very modern sense of 'bright' as meaning 'atheist'?
> > Anthony
> >>>> ROOD DAVID S<David.Rood at Colorado.EDU> 
> 20/02/2011 15:11>>>
> >
> > David S. Rood
> > Dept. of Linguistics
> > Univ. of Colorado
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> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:02:32 -0700 (MST)
> > From: ROOD DAVID S<David.Rood at colorado.edu>
> > To: linguistics faculty<ling-fac at lists.Colorado.EDU>
> > Cc: linguistics grads<ling-grads at lists.Colorado.EDU>,
> >       siounists at spot.colorado.edu
> > Subject: cross-linguistic metaphors
> >
> >
> > Dear Colleagues:
> >
> >       I'm trying to tap
> into the biggest database I know of for
> > knowledge of
> > languages, namely all of you.  I have a query
> from someone who wants
> to
> > know
> > whether a language exists that does not equate
> "bright" and "dim" in
> > the sense
> > of light and shadow/dark with the same words used to
> describe
> > intellectual
> > acuity or lack thereof.  In English we can call
> people "bright" and
> > "dim(witted)" to mean 'smart' and 'not so smart'.
> >
> >    Do you know of a language that lacks that
> equation?
> >
> >       Thanks for your
> help.
> >
> > Best,
> >       David
> >
> >
> > David S. Rood
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