Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not sure I follow. What is the appellation you are referring to? I wasn't calling him anything. I was describe a common theme in his academic and public life (as far as I can tell. I know basically only what has been said here of his public life). Daniel On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > 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 > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html