[Hardy-l] Tess' freedom

[Charles.Anesi at wellsfargo.com]

>But, aside from infatuation (which some would call an addiction or
unreasoned passion) these are terms *descriptive* of one word
- "love." 

Not in the least.  Erotic love and agape love are very clearly quite
different things.  And parallel with your example of -cide words for
killing I would cite the scores of English words with the -philia
suffix.  This reminds me of the old legend about Eskimo having a
gazillion words for snow and English having one.  Which, aside from
neglecting words like crust, powder, rime, snowdrift, sleet and so
forth, and also ignoring that there are many Eskimo languages, misses
the point that those languages are agglutinative. 


Chuck Anesi
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rosemarie Morgan [mailto:Rosemarie.morgan at yale.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 7:52 AM
To: hardy-l at coyote.csusm.edu
Subject: RE: [Hardy-l] Tess' freedom

Yes -- this is true. But, aside from infatuation (which some would call
an addiction or unreasoned passion) these are terms *descriptive* of one
word
- "love." In other words we have to modify the one word we have. This
isn't the case with killing. If English is "mainly analytic and
generally avoids stringing morphemes together into compound words" this
still doesn't explain the dozens of words we have for killing and only
one for love.

Rosemarie
>How about erotic love, brotherly love, and agape love? // glish is 
>mainly an analytic language and generally avoids stringing morphemes 
>together into compound words.
>Chuck Anesi


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