Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the clarification. In this environment, such an appellation is a method of dismissal. A method practiced by both the right and the left. Chomsky has certainly been painted by a broad brush by his detractors, and that particular one has been the most common. Being a card carrying IWW member, albeit for antiquarian reasons, I'm sure it must amuse him. Slobodan Dimitrov - ---------- >From: Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: Chomsky Re: [Leica] XXX of the YYY? WAS (something else) (fwd) >Date: Fri, Nov 28, 2003, 1:56 PM > > Sorry ... I was afraid it might be a "Swecism". > > In ancient Greek (through Byzantine times ... not all that ancient) ... > there was the "Golden thread". I think it became "red" in Swedish. I > translated. > > I suppose it can be paraphrased as "the common theme", the binding factor > that makes sense of otherwise disparate ideas or non-related topics. > > Not "red" as in political red. "Common ground". > > Sorry, I did have a feeling it might be "translationese". > > Daniel > > > On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > >> A 'red thread'! Can you define the term? >> I'm only asking for clarity's sake. >> Slobodan Dimitrov >> >> >> ---------- >> >From: Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no> >> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> >Subject: RE: Chomsky Re: [Leica] XXX of the YYY? WAS (something else) (fwd) >> >Date: Fri, Nov 28, 2003, 9:19 AM >> >> > >> > There seems to be a red thread running through his work ... even the >> > academic work requires one to think more critically about previously >> > accepted truths. >> > >> > I'll have to check out some of his other works ... thanks. >> > >> > Daniel >> > >> > >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html