Re: CHAT: Support/Oppression of Conlanging

Clint Jackson Baker writes:
 > Siyo!
 > Ihekwike Kwitsose-Wahitada (ChristopHer Wright)
 > (BTW I just coined this new form of transliterating
 > names--hyphenating and agglutinating the proper case
 > ending--I like it!)
 > > Fascists tend to use another set of propaganda
 > > tactics. They want to
 > > return to former glories of their country / area /
 > > neighbors /
 > > conquerors. They would probably claim that some god
 > > or other had guided
 > > them and would continue to guide them. Religion is a
 > > powerful motivator.
 > > (Frank Herbert understood this.)
 > >
 >
 > This makes sense.  Consider the origins of our term
 > "Fascist".  The Mussolini gov't used it of themselves.
 >  They wanted to bring back the former glory of the
 > ancient Romans.  This is evidenced in the
 > etymology--"fascist" from "fascii"--a sheaf of wheat
 > used as a symbol of the Roman people (IIRC).
 >
_fasces_, a bundle of rods with a projecting axe blades, carried by a
lictor as a symbol of a magistrate's power.

The fasces was certainly used as a symbol by the Italian (and, IIRC,
the British) Fascists, but my dictionary gives the etymology of
_fascism_ (via Italian _fascismo_) as coming from _fascio_, "bundle or
political group".  This is from the same Latin root, _fascis_,
"bundle", of which _fasces_ is plural.

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