[lbo-talk] etymology

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Fri Jul 1 10:44:31 PDT 2005


Doug Henwood wrote:


>> Yup to the epithet. I tried similar things to that (Mac Tiger comes
>> with the Oxford American Dictionary, which has the same etymology),
>> but he swore, based on "7 years of studying Greek & Latin," that if
>> you go further back, they have a common root.
>
Words don't have secret wishes. If he wants to call terrorists the scum of the earth, he doesn't need etymology; he can just do that. I studied Latin and Greek too, and I am very skeptical.

Joanna


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