Afghanistan Repatriation Memorial

[Sarah]

Similar sense:

ST:TNG S01E14: ~00:16.07

"After seven years the great ship Enterprise comes to repatriate the insignificant people."

[Insert all ST jokes here.]

This usage seems to apply to the unfortunately named Canadian memorial, and adequately describes the arrogance. (Before I have things thrown at me--the idea was to honour the dead--not that Canada managed to "repatriate" a country that it clearly does not have the ability/right/etc. to do so.)

S.


On 2012-11-13, at 1:56 AM, Sarah wrote:

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> So to sum up: rather odd.
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> (The Queen repatriated Canada [OED3 v, 3] in 1882; but how/why does Canada have a memorial for the repatriation of Afghanistan [that is a memorial for Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan]?)
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> On 2012-11-12, at 10:36 PM, W Brewer wrote:
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>> S<puellaest>: <<<Afghanistan Repatriation Memorial  honouring Canadian
>> soldiers that died in Afghanistan>>>
>> WB<puellanonest>: Recalling my undergraduate feature notation: A.R.M.
>> involves (for me, EGO) incompatible features. _Repatriation_ includes the
>> feature [+alive], _memorial_ [-alive]. This is why it jars my neurons.
>> Evidently, _repatriation_ has a broader [+/-alive] feature for non-EGO
>> informants.
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