Re: Ironic Use of Attitudinals

[Colin Fine <colin@KINDNESS.DEMON.CO.UK>]

vecu'u le notci po'u <879002725.1414180.0@listserv.cuny.edu> la Robin
Turner <robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR> cu cusku di'e
>Sounds like a good way to examine SWH.  If presented with a language which
>doesn't have a "stiff-upper-lip assumption", will English (and specifically
>male British english) speakers

It is clear that 'English' does not have any such assumption - consider,
for example, Indian English. Some English-speaking cultures may have
such an assumption, but if this has anything to do with SWH it is a
counter-argument not a supporting one.

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