Senator Ted Cruz\u00a0making an impassioned speech\u00a0at a Senate hearing on Tuesday\u00a0about reaching a \u201cbipartisan agreement\u201d\u00a0on crime:<\/p>\r\n
\u201cHow about we all come together and say, \u2018let\u2019s stop murders?\u2019<\/p>\r\n
\u201cHow about we all come together and say \u2018let\u2019s stop rape?\u2019<\/p>\r\n
\u201cHow about we all come together and say \u2018let\u2019s stop attacking pedophiles\u2019.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
(Independent<\/a> [10\/1\/25]; videos here<\/a> and here<\/a>)<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n I think that Cruz may have wanted to say \"pedophilia\" to match \"murders\" and \"rape\", but that's a rare word that he didn't quite know what it meant or how to handle it, so he made the quick switcheroo with the parallelism of the other preceding two phrases.<\/p>\r\n Many psychologists recommend against using the term pedophilia<\/i> to denote sexual activities with children, because not all people with a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children (i.e., pedophilia) commit such acts, and child molesters often lack a strong sexual interest in prepubescent children.[<\/span>1]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>[<\/span>2]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> Furthermore, psychological texts define pedophilia<\/i> as a primary or exclusive attraction towards specifically prepubescent<\/i> children;[<\/span>3]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> attraction towards pubescent children is known as hebephilia<\/a><\/i> and towards post-pubescent adolescents as ephebophilia<\/a><\/i>. See Wikipedia<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\r\n (Wiktionary<\/a>)<\/p>\r\n Lesson:\u00a0 don't reach for a word you're not sure of.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Selected readings<\/b><\/p>\r\n [h.t. Fran\u00e7ois Lang]<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senator Ted Cruz\u00a0making an impassioned speech\u00a0at a Senate hearing on Tuesday\u00a0about reaching a \u201cbipartisan agreement\u201d\u00a0on crime: \u201cHow about we all come together and say, \u2018let\u2019s stop murders?\u2019 \u201cHow about we all come together and say \u2018let\u2019s stop rape?\u2019 \u201cHow about we all come together and say \u2018let\u2019s stop attacking pedophiles\u2019.\u201d\u00a0 (Independent [10\/1\/25]; videos here and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,293,313],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-errors","category-language-and-psychology","category-misspeaking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71334,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71328\/revisions\/71334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\r\n