Spivak & Eagleton

bill fancher fancher at pacbell.net
Thu Jan 27 09:27:14 PST 2000


Regarding "psycho-cyber-stalinist", Michael Hoover wrote:


> calling someone *stalinist* is stereotypical pejorative comment, adding
> *cyber* makes it sooo kewl, but calling lister *psychotic* - as in
> suffering from psychosis, as in severe mental disorder involving a person's
> whole personality - is more than 'probably excessive', it is highly
> offensive...

So psycho-linguists really ARE suffering from a severe mental disorder. I'd kind of suspected...

-- bill



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