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NormanKliman
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RE: Axis of Evil Comedy (in reply to Ron.M)
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I see there is a practically unused meaning of the word, as an "partnership", but to be honest, I've never heard it used before W. Ron, maybe it's limited to American English, but near the end of the list of accepted definitions: an alliance of two or more nations to coordinate their foreign and miltary policies and to draw in with them a group of dependent or supporting powers. quote:
sounds like one of those obscure metaphors that you get from folk who have steeped their lives in heavy Literature. Nah: experts in cold-war paranoia. Maybe it's supposed to sound like "the Axis," which refers to Nazi Germany, Japan and some other countries in WWII. (What, don't you say that in the UK?) I think they wanted to appeal to (=provoke fear in) a broad and reliable voter base. Maybe this isn't the best thread to carry on with the idea, but when I heard about "freedom fries"... Hey Arash, good stuff, thanks for uploading that! I was going to post earlier to say that I enjoyed it, but I never got around to it and just let it go. I think they're doing a good thing, getting people to laugh like that, and I imagine they've run into problems at one point or another. Great example of turning tension into laughter! Edit: Looks like Adam posted right before I did (and lot more eloquently, I might add!)
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Date Jan. 28 2009 13:39:28
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srshea
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From: Olympia, WA in the Great Pacific Northwest
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RE: Axis of Evil Comedy (in reply to Ron.M)
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Yeah, I had heard it in context of WWII before, ("Axis" Forces), but I always assumed it to be one of those many WWII "code" words and not really everyday English. Yeah, there’s an interesting question in there, and a bit of a chicken/egg one, too. I don’t really know if the usage was obscure but already in place, or if the usage originates from “axis” being used in that WW2 context and then carrying on from there…. This reminds me of a word that’s very rarely used in English and always jumps out at me when I see it: “putsch”, the German word for coup d’etat. This is way over my head, etymologically, but so far as I know the usage of putsch in American English is inextricably, and almost exclusively, linked to its reference to the Munich Beer Hall Putsch. I really don’t know that it’s ever had a common usage outside of that context, and at any rate it’s definitely much less common that “coup” which is pretty standard. Anytime I’ve seen this word used in a more general, non-Beer Hall, context, there’s always been some kind of ideological underpinning to it. I was once paging through a general American history written by a guy with conservative-leaning views, scanning the book, trying to find various controversial episodes in American history to see what sort of slant he put on his interpretation of certain events. The scanning came to a screeching halt when I saw a reference to the (impending, but ultimately unnecessary) impeachment of Richard Nixon as an attempted “putsch”! Takes a pretty “healthy” imagination to conflate the impeachment of Nixon with Hitler’s first, armed attempt at seizing power in Germany!
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Date Jan. 29 2009 14:53:36
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