[lbo-talk] Men are slackers

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Jul 12 10:31:47 PDT 2006


info at pulpculture.org wrote:
>
> At 11:48 AM 7/12/2006, Doug Henwood wrote:
> or with invitations to phatic
> >reassurance

I love that word (phatic) and almost never see it used. I vaguely remember outraging some list subscriber once by claiming that the primary use of language was phatic (and probably key to the invention of language in the first place).

Carrol



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