And don't forget ...

[Dan Goncharoff]

Can you homogenize cider?

DanG

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> Maybe safer than "genocider", which looks and sounds like a particularly =
> unfortunate name for a fruit drink.
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> LH
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> On Sep 18, 2014, at 9:09 AM, David Barnhart wrote:
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> > genocidaire, jen uh seye DAIR /d=A5en c sYi=92der/, n. {W}  1. a =
> person who
> > participates in crimes of genocide; genocidist. Compare war crime =
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> > 1906) and crime against humanity (OEDs: 1944).  Standard (used in =
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> > dealing especially with crime; frequency?)
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> > There are about 1,000 Tutsi survivors living in Kibuye town.  Today =
> they are
> > outnumbered by the number of freed killers on the streets.  =93They =
> live in
> > the neighbourhood. They drink in the bars. We saw what they did with =
> our own
> > eyes. We live in fear because they are free,=94 says Madalena.  The =
> government
> > began releasing the genocidaire nearly two years ago.  The nation=92s =
> jail
> > population had swelled to 120,000 and the established court system =
> would
> > have taken more than a century to try them. Chris McGreal, =93=91It=92s =
> so
> > difficult to live with what we know=92,=94 The Guardian [England] =
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> > March 29, 2004,=20
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> > In one passage from the book, Dallaire describes a visit to a village =
> he had
> > hoped had not been wiped out by the genocidaire.  In the book, =
> Dallaire
> > describes the scene on a hill, where even the peace had been murdered. =
>  ...
> > As the death toll mounted, General Dallaire submitted a detailed plan =
> for a
> > Rapid Reaction Force. He needed 5,000 soldiers to dismantle the =
> killing
> > machine of the genocidaire and to stop the Hutu power movement. The UN
> > Security Council rejected the plan. The United States even refused to
> > acknowledge the genocide to avoid any legal obligations to help.  =
> Carol Off,
> > =93In Depth: Romeo Dallaire,=94 CBC [Canadian Broadcasting =
> Corporation] News
> > (Google), Oct. 24, 2003,=20
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> > 2. Attributive use.
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> > And to top it all off, the United States, the country I find myself a
> > citizen of, has recently declared its support for the DRC=92s =
> government.
> > Sympathy for the Rwandans?  Glad the Rwandese Patriotic Front smashed =
> the
> > genocidaire government to pieces?  If the US begins to aid the DRC
> > government, financially or militarily, the troops that stopped the =
> genocide
> > in 1994 will be fighting against -US-, now!  Jerry Ku [Houston, Texas] =
> in a
> > letter to WGBH [PBS], =93The Triumph of Evil; Discussion,=94 Frontline =
> (Google),
> > 1999 [the program was aired on Jan. 26, 1999],=20
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> > 1996.  Loan word (borrowing): from French genocidaire, meaning =93a =
> person who
> > attempts to commit genocide=94 [ultimately from English genocide =
> (1944),
> > coinded by Rapha=EBl Lemkin (Duke U.)].
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> > F The pronunciation given above is Anglicized.  In French it is =
> pronounced:
> > zhen uh si: DAIR /=A5=E3 nc si:=92der/.  The older term is genocidist =
> (1977?).
> > The new form has been adopted recently especially by human rights =
> activists.
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