From: Sunah Cherwin (slippery@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Aug 25 1996 - 12:13:28 MDT
> >"Stupid" is a highly emotive word.
>
> Exactly. But if we used it as if it weren't, then the
> emotive connotation might wear off.
>
You mean to say that it is good to wear the emotional connotations off of
English words, right?
I could see this in another language, maybe, but English has a range of
connotative words for just about everything, you could pick precisely the
one you want.
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