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Re: OT: Mildy OT: "Freedom kiss"?

From:Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>
Date:Thursday, March 13, 2003, 14:01
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Sally Caves <scaves@F...> wrote:

 > Maybe we could replace every foreign concept we don't like with the word
 > "freedom."  French dressing.  Freedom dressing!  Arabic numerals.
Freedom
 > numerals!  Russian Roulette. Freedom Roulette!  Oops, but that's a
Freedom
 > borrowing, there.

How would you distinguish Freedom (Arabic) from Freedom (Roman)
numerals then?  Maybe each foreign country should have a
euphemism of its own, e.g. "Patriot" for Russian, "Faith" for
Arabic etc...  then the US republican could live on happily ever
after without ever being reminded of the disturbing existence
of foreign countries.  ;-)


-- Christian Thalmann