"defecting"

[Tom Zurinskas]

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As I recall=2C "defecting" to Canada to avoid the draft for Nam was a prett=
y common term.  No jesting.  I remember when I get my draft notice and the =
war was going poorly.  Friends and relatives were killed there.  The countr=
y was protesting.  The question was "should I go or defect to Canada?"  If =
memory serves me right=2C "defecting" was the normal term=2C not just a pej=
orative.


Tom Zurinskas=2C USA - CT20=2C TN3=2C NJ33=2C FL7+
see truespel.com phonetic spelling





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> Date: Tue=2C 20 Oct 2009 20:11:20 -0400
> From: laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
> Subject: Re: "defecting"
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> At 5:05 PM -0700 10/20/09=2C Dave Wilton wrote:
>>My guess would be that "defecting" was used in jest.
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> Ah=2C beaten to the punch.
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> LH
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>>Jonathan Lighter
>>Sent: Tuesday=2C October 20=2C 2009 4:32 PM
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>>What Alison says is certainly plausible=2C but "defect" sounds odd to me =
in
>>this context because in my idiot-lect one can only "defect" to the enemy.
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>>The usual phrase=2C at least in my circle=2C was simply "go to [or "head =
for"]
>>Canada."
>>JL
>>On Tue=2C Oct 20=2C 2009 at 7:23 PM=2C Alison Murie wrote:
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>>>> I heard a woman=2C discussing a hippie she had known in the 1980's=2C
>>>> refer to "defecting to Canada".
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>>>> I've never heard "defecting" in this context. Also=2C considering
>>>> that the man lived in Princeton NJ circa 1980=2C is it even correct?
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>>> Where were you during the VietNam war? One might give up on another
>>> US cause (health care=2C anyone?) & defect to Canada even in the 80s.
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