Joanna
Chris Doss wrote:
>This puts me over posting limit, but I will hope for
>mercy because this is the main Russian holiday. ;)
>
>It's not "abused," but it poorly used in translation:
>the word "pogrom." Anglophones seem to think it means
>violence against Jews. No. (Caveat: I know the word is
>now an English word and has detached from its original
>meaning, but it still annoys me.) The Russian word
>"pogrom" means any kind of bottom-up violence,
>irrespective of reason or target. The anti-Jewish
>violence in Russia in 1905, the Watts riots,
>anti-Black lynchings in the US South, the Arab young
>people attacking the French state recently are all
>pogroms. I spent the evening waling around Moscow with
>my ex-girlfriend, who just got back from a 3-month
>stay in Paris, and she talked about the student
>pogroms in France: "I saw the police put two
>pogromshchiki in the back of a car."
>
>--- Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
>I am inclined to think that the term is one of those
>abused
>terms like "terrorism" that have been reduced to near
>meaninglessness through overuse.
>
>Nu, zayats, pogodi!
>
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