Re: Father/Motherland
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 25, 2000, 14:59 |
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Jonathan Chang wrote:
> To me, Lady Liberty always struck me as being rather "butch" (big,
> stocky, rather hamfisted, & oh so Germanic looking [yes the French built HER,
> I know]).
IMHO Marianne looks like she comes from Alsace as well.
New fave word: "Elsasserung" ("Alsatianization"): a derogatory term used in the
South Tyrol (German-speaking part of Italy) for the slow disappearance of German
from a historically German-speaking area.
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