It's not only that I hadn't fully grasped the degree to which the word "heritage" is now considered a term of abuse, something I find wholly mystifying, given that our heritage – emphasis on the word "our" – includes such things as libraries, national parks, museums and galleries; I also strongly dislike the implication that we're all in one camp or the other.
Chomsky, however, disliked the notion that such a minimally evolved creature as a bee could have language, because language was, to him, distinctly human; he also disliked the implication that language in humans was, like the waggle dance, a skill that had evolved because it was useful.
The US has taken a subtly different approach to the negotiations in the past day, with the special envoy for climate change, Todd Stern, speaking approvingly of the roadmap – a term he has avoided before, as the US dislikes the implication that there is a set route with a strict timetable and clear destination.
Hence, the second phase of the Great Recession saw renewed fissures among economists (over when one should ease off government spending) and efforts to widen these fissures by governments and other institutions that disliked the policy implications of economists' advice.
It cannot be denied because it is inconvenient, or because one dislikes the policy implications.
When Frederic Bartlett imported the term 'schema' into the psychology of memory from neurophysiology, he worried about its static implications: "I strongly dislike the term 'schema'.
Run-of-the-mill consultants dislike the attention lavished on such superstars, and resent the implication that their job is simply to apply someone else's ideas.
Did she dislike the character?
I dislike the first option.
