Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id TAA15602 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:35:08 GMT Message-ID: <002501c1ba46$1047c2e0$57aceb3e@default> From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be> To: <kennethvanoost@myrealbox.com> References: <DA6B0171-2623-11D6-9A2B-003065B9A95A@harvard.edu> Subject: Re: Debate opens anew on language and its effect on cognition Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:37:02 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: Wade T.Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: Debate opens anew on language and its effect on cognition
> On Wednesday, February 20, 2002, at 10:09 , Grant Callaghan wrote:
>
> > In Chinese, "yellow journalism" is pornography.
>
> Well, there is a phrase on this side of the globe that's exactly the
> same. But it ain't about pornography, in any sexual sense, although it
> does indicate journalism tending towards the sensational and
> rumor-laden. It's more pejorative, and I believe the origin of it was
> the type of paper used in the printing. There is another, separate (I
> think) journalistic connection with yellow, originating from one of the
> first comics, The Yellow Kid.
Hi,
The phrase is the ' yellow press ', newspapers that hunt down sensational
items about the rich and famous.
There is another one, ' yellow union ', unions who choose the side of the
employers are called like that.
We got an expression over here, ' he looks like the yellow envy ', some-
one is so piss... off with something that he/ she turns yellow, that due to
the
working of the gall.
Also, a blue Monday, ( in Dutch we got the expression, ' running a blue one
',
sorry for the translation)_ that means be turned down, be jilted.
Literally, paleface or whitey is in Dutch " palefart "....
What a world....
Regards,
Kenneth
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