--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > >>>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > >>>>> <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > >>> <snip> > > >> I checked many definitions of the term when I designed my course > >> including over a dozen books on the subject. I am familiar with > >> the term in detail and you are misusing it as a way to make Sal > >> look bad. It also neuters an important term following your absurd > >> assertion that a power differential is not key. > > > > This is just bluster, Curtis. In fact, you're attempting > > to bully *me*. > > I think Curtis is just elucidating points. "Misusing it as a way to make Sal look bad" is bullying.
> >>> The Merriam Webster Collegiate* Dictionary, 11th edition, > >>> has this definition: > >>> > >>> "a blustering browbeating person; especially: one > >>> habitually cruel to others who are weaker." > >>> > >>> "Especially" does not mean "limited to." > >> > >> The definition of browbeating includes "intimidation" because > >> it also rests on an inequality of power to be > >> meaningful. > > > > Are you really trying to claim one person can't intimidate > > another person unless there's an inequality of power to > > start with? That's just bizarre. Intimidation can *create* > > an inequality of power between two people who were peers > > to start with. And so, of course, can bullying. > > > >> "Especially" means in particular, to help distinguish this > >> word's meanings from others. In other words they are > >> defining the term in terms of its reliance on the other > >> person being weaker. > > > > Nope, you're wrong, sorry. "Especially" defines a special > > sense distinguished from the more general sense of the > > definition that precedes it. "Especially" does not *limit* > > how the word may be used to that special sense. At least > > not per Merriam-Webster. It's called a "sense divider." > > -------------------- > es·pe·cial·ly > > adverb > > Used to single out one person, thing, or situation over all others > - he despised them all, especially Sylvester > - a new song, written especially for Jonathan > > To a great extent; very much > - he didn't especially like dancing > - sleep is especially important for growing children > -------------------- > > I think Judy got you there Curtis. Thanks, but note that it's Merriam-Webster who got him there. That's how they use the "esp." designation, to elucidate a particular sense encompassed by a more general sense. "He despised them all, especially Sylvester" is the closest example you've given above: the general followed by the particular. What Curtis is trying to claim with regard to the "bully" definition amounts to insisting that the person despised *only* Sylvester, which is clearly absurd. The M-W dictionary has extensive explanations in the front of the book of all the various terms used in its definitions; this isn't just my interpretation based on the definition of "especially."
