OT: Mildy OT: "Freedom kiss"?
| From: | Peter Clark <peter-clark@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 12, 2003, 2:26 |
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It's nice to know that in an age where there are so many important things to
be concerned about, the U.S. House of Representatives is busy making a fool
of itself:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/sprj.irq.fries/index.html
For you history buffs, you will remember that back during WWI, lots of
German-sounding things were renamed; sauerkraut became "liberty cabbage,"
frankfurter became "liberty sausage," hamburger became "liberty meat," etc.
Now, apparently, the French are the New Germans; we cannot have "french"
fries or "french" toast (both, IIRC, have been discussed on this list
before); nay, dear friends, we must have "freedom fries" and "freedom toast."
My response: if it was stupid then, it's no less stupid now. Nevertheless,
the games that politicians play with language can be...amusing...at times.
:Peter
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Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!
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