Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Chris Matthews' In-Law Arrested In Multimillion Dollar Pot Bust


Different cultures, different languages, have specific words devoted to describing relations by marriage.  The man arrested is Chris Matthews's machatunim (Yiddish).  Or mishpokhe (extended family).  In Spanish, to Chris Matthews his daughter-i­n-law's parents (the other parents of the married couple, or co-grandpa­rents) are consuegros.

We've been talking lately about Frank Luntz and his manipulati­on of language for political purposes.  If you want to see change in the US, change the language you use to describe the relationsh­ips between people around you.  Inclusion rather than exclusion.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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