Re: nonpersonification?

[Carl Glover <glover@msmary.edu>]

Dear Kevin and Neal,
	So Al Gore doing the Macarena would be defined as "algorithm,"
right?	
					Warm regards,



					Carl W. Glover
					glover@msmary.edu

On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Neal Lerner wrote:

> Kevin, I believe the term for that is to "Al Gore" someone, or "Algoring"
> in the participal form.  Glad to be of help.          Neal nlerner@mcp.edu
> 
> At 12:36 PM 2/18/97, Kevin Davis wrote:
> >After all the high philosophy I hate to ask such a mundane question, but is
> >there a term for the opposite of "personification," giving non-person or
> >machine-like characteristics to people?  My usual source--a tattered copy of
> >E.P.J.Corbett--was no help, so I turn to y'all.
> >
> >kevni
> 
> 
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