Faith Hill: Where Are You, Christmas?
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
On fear
Just an interesting point a sacrament meeting speaker made recently: The word fear is problematic in religious contexts, because it’s ambiguous. Therefore, it becomes necessary to contrast what i as a linguist might call fearreverence and fearshame (with reverence and shame being the words the speaker used).
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It's an important distinction because of the whole fearing the Lord thing that a lot of people don't get right.
See, yet another reason for people to take a History of the English Language class—you learn all about shifts like this from Early Modern English to Present-Day English.
Not that making such a suggestion would be self-serving for myself as a linguistics professor, of course—no, not at all.☺
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