[Ads-l] odd use of "civilian"

[Laurence Horn]

> On Nov 2, 2015, at 6:38 PM, Dave Hause <dwhause at CABLEMO.NET> wrote:
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> "Odd" - sort of, to me, but not new.  My NOAD, 2nd ed., says roughly, 'not a member of military or police.'  My long term employment history went Army - police - Army and I think of civilian as only "not military."  But my usage sense for others is, "not one of us" however "us" is defined.

Sort of like "gentile", mutatis mutandis.

LH
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> Dave Hause, dwhause at cablemo.net
> Waynesville, MO
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> -----Original Message----- From: James A. Landau
> Sent: Monday, November 2, 2015 8:14 AM
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> Subject: odd use of "civilian"
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> Since ISIS poses a mortal threat to journalists — it has killed dozens of mostly local reporters, as well as its high-profile Western victims — the job of exposing the group's barbarity has fallen to civilians. In April 2014, a group of student activists set up Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently inside the ISIS capital. Its two dozen or so members post written reports and videos — often filmed on mobile phones hidden in the sleeves of jackets — documenting daily life under ISIS control. 
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