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To: rockabyebaby

Comrade? A Commie term - why adopt such repulsive terminology here?


51 posted on 11/09/2009 2:09:35 PM PST by Ron C.
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To: Ron C.

It’s not repulsive, anyone who listens or watches Glenn knows exactly how it’s used.


53 posted on 11/09/2009 2:10:32 PM PST by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: Ron C.
My 96 year old father was just buried and was honored by his fellow comrades at a very moving funeral service. The Air Force, the VFW and American Legion were there to honor his service in the Army-Air Corps.

Comrades in arms to serve our great nation.

56 posted on 11/09/2009 2:14:35 PM PST by proud2beconservativeinNJ ("In God We Trust")
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To: Ron C.

I prefer fellow Patriot


57 posted on 11/09/2009 2:15:06 PM PST by paul revere is riding
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To: Ron C.

Word History: A comrade can be socially or politically close, a closeness that is found at the etymological heart of the word comrade. In Spanish the Latin word camara, with its Late Latin meaning “chamber, room,” was retained, and the derivative camarada, with the sense “roommates, especially barrack mates,” was formed. Camarada then came to have the general sense “companion.” English borrowed the word from Spanish and French, English comrade being first recorded in the 16th century. The political sense of comrade, now associated with Communism, had its origin in the late-19th-century use of the word as a title by socialists and communists in order to avoid such forms of address as mister. This usage, which originated during the French Revolution, is first recorded in English in 1884.

Some words in our language have been hijacked. Gay does not mean the same as its origin, nor does queer. We use it as it was originally intended; a person with similar political or social views......


89 posted on 11/09/2009 2:58:11 PM PST by wombtotomb
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To: Ron C.

...It’s an inside joke, lighten up, FRiend...


99 posted on 11/09/2009 3:57:32 PM PST by gargoyle (...My thoughts are not seditious, or treasonous, they're revolutionary...)
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