Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 11:07:37 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: "Jason" <kib@mediaone.net>, "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com>, <ldmservices@charter.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why do you support Yahoo! Message-ID: <02ef01c06d45$f373d6c0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <002301c06a1d$a52783c0$19bad818@debbie> <002701c06a25$27e7c9d0$aa240018@cx443070b> <006a01c06a40$11ffc580$ad181f40@bignet.net> <06fc01c06a28$7d9c3840$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <00b401c06a45$4d279020$ad181f40@bignet.net> <072301c06a2e$11c77ca0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20001223224429.H48060@hades.hell.gr>
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sounds better the way I heard it even if its not "politically correct" :) :) :) > > Were you aware where the word "politics" originated ?? > > > > Well firstly there's "poli" which comes from some old greek / roman / latin > > / whatever and means "many" ..... then there's "ticks", which as we all > > know are "bloodsucking parasites" .........ergo ..... politics means "many > > bloodsucking parasites" !!!!!! > > Nice. Really nice! > > However, `politikos / politiki' is a word that comes from ancient Greek, and > lives in modern Greek until this day. It means `of polis', i.e. one that > `belongs to the "polis"', where `polis' is the Greek word for `city'. > > Of course a city's parasites, *do* belong to the city; among other things :-))) > > - giorgos > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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