Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: girl vs. woman -- causality; changing attitude via language Message-ID: <875@opus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 20:34:33 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.875 Posted: Wed Oct 10 20:34:33 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 05:49:18 EDT References: <366@ism780.UUCP>, <844@opus.UUCP> <9246@watmath.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 17 > > From rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Thu Sep 27 15:36:43 1984 > > It's a serious mistake to try to change people's attitudes by changing > > language. That's getting the causality backwards... > ... > ...I agree that it would be better to broaden > the attitude directly instead of attacking it through the language, but I > don't think the lingual attack is a mistake. It raises consciousness. > -IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) University of Waterloo I should have phrased that differently--it would have been better to say that you can't change attitudes "...JUST by changing language..." Attitudes and language interact, of course...my point was that the language doesn't DETERMINE attitudes; what I avoided saying was that it INFLUENCES them. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Relax...don't worry...have a homebrew.