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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=984565117-02062005></SPAN>M<SPAN
class=984565117-02062005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=3>arco,</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=984565117-02062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=984565117-02062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>Wittgenstein said "the meaning of a word is its
use." It's up to you</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=984565117-02062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>how you want to use the word "patria" in Italian
or how the Austrian</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=984565117-02062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>wants to use the word "Heimat." I respect that.
For me - as I explained with</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=984565117-02062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>a number of examples - it is not a loaded term,
but very positive.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=984565117-02062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>How ideologues - who come and go - use words is
another matter.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=984565117-02062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>Is it better to have a "political correctness"
dictionary or to</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=984565117-02062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>include PC terms in a general dictionary?
!</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=984565117-02062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>Every language user has the power to redefine
words or</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=984565117-02062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>use them creatively. I can avoid a word or
reclaim a word</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=984565117-02062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>(and rid it of unwanted sense components). I
believe in the</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN class=984565117-02062005>power
of reinterpretation.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=984565117-02062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=984565117-02062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>By the way, where are you from in Italy (if you
are Italian)?</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=984565117-02062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>Would you call the place where you were born and
maybe grew up</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=984565117-02062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>"terra natia"?</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=984565117-02062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=984565117-02062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>Fritz Goerling</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><TT>Thanks for the explanation.<BR><BR>I was just talking to an
Austrian colleague here in Vienna, and we both <BR>felt that we would use the
terms patria (I) and Heimat (him) only <BR>jokingly, as they seem to correlate
in our minds with a constellation of <BR>unpleasent things (Fascism/Nazism,
wars, and the
like...)<BR><BR>M<BR></TT>
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