[ExI] Time Magazine: Person of the Year: Putin(!), my vote instead: Anna Politkovskaja

Amara Graps amara at amara.com
Tue Dec 25 17:11:24 UTC 2007


Eliezer:
>"Person of the Year" is influence, not virtue.

In English-speaking cultures (especially American), this expression
"Person of the Year" means to give honors. They (Time) seemed to
have forgotten the language of the culture in which they are embedded.

Amara

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Amara Graps, PhD      www.amara.com
Research Scientist, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, Colorado



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