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http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingmike/6181419 --- On Mon, 4/6/09, Geoff Flight <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Geoff Flight <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [OT] We Are All Comrades Now > To: "'ProFox Email List'" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 6:43 PM > The point, which you seem to always > miss, is that the WESTERN world doesn’t > believe your interpretation. It might have been a dig at > Obama. Point is, > nobody realizes it and if nobody recognizes an insult or > slur then it is > hardly much of one. But it wouldn’t matter anyhow. It is > simply not possible > for Obama to do anything or say anything that you won't or > can't reinterpret > into something sinister. Obama is either the Antichrist > (note the > capitalization) or you are an idiot. Guess which option I'm > putting my money > on? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf > Of Bob Calco > Sent: Monday, 6 April 2009 10:33 PM > To: 'ProFox Email List' > Subject: RE: [OT] We Are All Comrades Now > > > That was 45 years ago. Perhaps time to catch up. There > has been the > > collapse > > of the USSR since then. Miss it? > > As one who has been to Russia 3 times (and lived there for > a year during one > of those trips), married a Russian, and speaks the language > fluently, I know > a few things about the connotations of words based on how > Russians use them. > > > For example, when Gorbachev told Reagan, "Ti boltaesh," > during one of their > summit meetings, it was actually a dig calling him a > blubber mouth, though > it was translated far more benignly by the Western press as > "you speak so > eloquently" or something to that effect. Russians back home > got the joke. > It's actually very Russian to deliver digs under the guise > of compliments. > I'm sure Medvedev calling Obama his "new Comrade" was a > tongue-in-cheek > insult, actually, probably mocking Obama's utopian > socialist delusions. > > Your theory that the word "comrade" instantly returned to > its old, > pre-communist meaning years before the Berlin wall fell is, > well, naïve to > put it diplomatically. I don't think even > communist/linguist Noam Chomsky > would argue that! You must be smarter than him. > > - Bob > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are > the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or > medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for > those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
