LAS LENGUAS INGLESA Y ESPAÑOLA de Delfín Carbonell

  Dr. Marilyn Yalom (1932-2019), feminist and historian, and life-long companion to Dr. Irvin Yalom ( When Nietzsche Wept ), wrote A history of the Breast, A History of the Wife, The Social Sex. A History of Female Friendship, How the French Invented Love ... and many others. She was a true-blue femnist of the intelligent, scholarly and educated kind.  I stand to be corrected, but none of her books on women deal with language. I am a feminist because I believe in justice, equality, and have three daughters and three granddaughters. And I believe in change, in dislocating the status quo, in kicking ass, but seriously, not half-hartedly. And I believe that trying to change language artificially is not going to change society. George Orwell and his newspeak taugut us that. To change a language artificially changes nothing. "Socios y socias, niños y niñas, unidos y unidas" is a travesty of equality. "If a lawyer wants to win a case, he/she must..." is a mockery.  I ur...

  In 2018 Marilyn Yalom published "An Unconventional History of Love," and later gave a TED talk entitled "How the Image of the Heart Became the Symbol of Love." I recommend both.  The heart has entered the English language through many expressions of daily use, dealing not only with love: 1) He is a man after my own heart: He has the same tastes and views as me.  2) I am still eating my heart out because she left me: I am still sad, longing for and missing her. 3) She broke the engagement because she had a change of heart: She changed her opinion, her mind. 4) The troops lost heart and ran away: The troops became discouraged and afraid. 5) I am telling you this from the bottom of my heart: I am telling you sincerely, in all truth. 6) Please, have a heart and help me: Be compasionate, good to me, and help me. Eat to one´s heart content. Wear one´s heart in one´s sleeve. Have a heart of gold. At heart. Cross one´s heart. Take heart... and many more.