Re: CHAT: Multi-Lingos
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 22, 2000, 13:06 |
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On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Michael Potter wrote:
> Which reminds me, where did they get the name Ku Klux Klan?
Well, Klan is just a respelling of clan, and Ku Klux is supposed to
be a conscious distortion of "kyklos" (Greek for circle), referring to the
membership as an unbroken circle of strength. The original KKK
was founded after the U.S. Civil War for the purpose of intimidating
new nonwhite citizens from voting; the various groups using the name
today are not directly descended from that organization.
--
John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"