[lbo-talk] etymology

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Jul 1 10:07:08 PDT 2005


Thomas Seay wrote:
>
> --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> > Some hyper-PC
> > dude on the WBAI
> > producers' list claims that "terrorist" comes from
> > the same root as
> > "terrestrial" - because terrorist = dirt.
>
> Must be related to the person who finds the word
> "HIStory" to be sexist.
>

Agreed. But also -- these sillinesses are not nearly as destructive as are the attempts of amateur evolutionary theorists to generate just-so stories to explain the mere epiphenomena of modern society (e.g., women marrying older men).

Carrol



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