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Minor correction/clarification: the language referred to in Lakoff's
book does not use a single word for women, fire, and dangerous things,
but has grammatical classes (these function similarly to gender in
Indo-European languages, but there are several and they do not usually
map to sex) and women, fire, and dangerous things are all in the
same class in their language. I think the book is from the mid-1980s,
but I don't have a copy here to clarify that.
