And don't forget ...

[Tom Zurinskas]

Can you homogenize cider?    --  call it homocider?  That's a killer.

Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 12.See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk


 
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> Can you homogenize cider?
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> 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.
> >
> > LH
> >
> > On Sep 18, 2014, at 9:09 AM, David Barnhart wrote:
> >
> > > 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 =
> > (OEDs:
> > > 1906) and crime against humanity (OEDs: 1944).  Standard (used in =
> > contexts
> > > dealing especially with crime; frequency?)
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > > 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] =
> > (Google News),
> > > March 29, 2004,=20
> > >=20
> > > <http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1179968,00.html>
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > > 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
> > >=20
> > > <http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/dallaire/>
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > > 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
> > >=20
> > > <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/talk/>
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > > 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.)].
> > >=20
> > > 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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