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10 Feb 2007 06:56 pmHappy birthday
inthesewall !
OMG Something Positive (my favourite webcomic) is being referred by Language Log :
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004174.html
I think the Language Log sorta missed the point ^_^;;
OMG Something Positive (my favourite webcomic) is being referred by Language Log :
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004174.html
I think the Language Log sorta missed the point ^_^;;
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Date: 11 February 2007 12:23 pm (UTC)And both the comic and the article don't mention the fact that Nazi isn't the first proper noun to become a derogatory common noun that has only a tenuous link to the original meaning - the same thing happened to Puritan/puritan. Although admittedly the Nazis are in a different ballpark to the Puritans, so we'll see if calling someone a nazi loses its original meaning like calling someone a puritan has.