[Xmca-l] Re: anachronism

[Andy Blunden]

All these opposites, Annalisa, are opposites of "culture" in
the sense of liking opera or reading a book instead of
watching TV, referring to a hierarchy *within* a culture. As
Greg alerted us to, "culture" is a very polysemous word. The
ana-culturalism I am looking for refers to "culture" which
is *different* rather than *more or less*. Like offering a
tip to the waitress in the local greasy spoon in London, or
a boss sacking a worker on the spot in an Australian company.


Andy

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Andy Blunden
http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
On 17/09/2018 8:26 AM, Annalisa Aguilar wrote:
>
> Hi Andy,
>
>
> It's always great to discover the hole in a language,
> which I would call the realization of not having a word
> for something meaningful.
>
>
> I looked up "aculture" and the dictionary found
> "acculture" which is actually to bring someone up to speed
> in their knowledge of a culture, but I don't think that is
> what you are looking for.
>
>
> I found these words when I looked up "what is the opposite
> of culture":
>
>
> ignorance
> inability
> inexperience
> uncouthness
> bad manners
> clumsiness
> coarseness
> crudeness
> harm
> hurt
> impoliteness
> incompetence
> inelegance
> ineptness
> roughness
> rudeness
> tactlessness
>
> Even though I know that you are not talking about
> opposites but outside of, what I noticed about this list
> is the emotionality I associate to many of the words,
> except maybe for "ignorance," which seems neutral and
> descriptive, though no one likes to be called ignorant,
> and that word is best used as a self-descriptor if I'm
> willing to call myself that.
>
>
> There is also "clueless" but that is also pejorative.
>
>
> Maybe "unsophisticated"? 
>
>
> These words below came up when I looked for synonyms for
> "clueless" and also have a pejorative color:
>
>
> brainless
> childlike
> clueless
> crude
> dumb
> feeble-minded
> idiotic
> ignorant
> moronic
> naive
> slow
> stupid
> uncomplicated
> unschooled
> unstudied
> untutored
> unworldly
>
> "Unworldly" might be OK.
>
> All in all? great observation.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Annalisa
>
>
>

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