11/09/2004
Some things I bumped into...
...while bloghopping by my lonesone self alone in campus...
http://www.livejournal.com/users/anniesj/331112.html
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2003/07/10/nadd.html
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And this I got from The LaSallian Yahoo! Groups...
zabernism (ZAB-uhr-niz-uhm) noun
The misuse of military power; aggression; bullying.
[After Zabern, German name for Saverne, a village in Alsace, France.In 1912, in this village, a German military officer killed a lamecobbler who smiled at him.]
"Both countries have been slaves to Kruppism and Zabernism--because theywere sovereign and free! So it will always be. So long as patriotic cantcan keep the common man jealous of international controls over hisbelligerent possibilities, so long will he be the helpless slave of theforeign threat, and 'Peace' remain a mere name for the resting phasebetween wars."
H.G. Wells; In The Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace; 1918.
And what is Kruppism? It's an eponym, coined after Alfred Krupp (1812-1887),German industrialist and armament manufacturer. It implies indiscriminatetrade in arms and war profiteering.
This week's theme: toponyms (words derived from the names of places).
http://www.wordsmith.org/
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You do learn something everyday, don't you?
http://www.livejournal.com/users/anniesj/331112.html
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2003/07/10/nadd.html
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And this I got from The LaSallian Yahoo! Groups...
zabernism (ZAB-uhr-niz-uhm) noun
The misuse of military power; aggression; bullying.
[After Zabern, German name for Saverne, a village in Alsace, France.In 1912, in this village, a German military officer killed a lamecobbler who smiled at him.]
"Both countries have been slaves to Kruppism and Zabernism--because theywere sovereign and free! So it will always be. So long as patriotic cantcan keep the common man jealous of international controls over hisbelligerent possibilities, so long will he be the helpless slave of theforeign threat, and 'Peace' remain a mere name for the resting phasebetween wars."
H.G. Wells; In The Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace; 1918.
And what is Kruppism? It's an eponym, coined after Alfred Krupp (1812-1887),German industrialist and armament manufacturer. It implies indiscriminatetrade in arms and war profiteering.
This week's theme: toponyms (words derived from the names of places).
http://www.wordsmith.org/
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You do learn something everyday, don't you?
// posted by Unknown @ 23:14 
