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Getting very close... "Exterminate! Exterminate!"
Exterminare 'to drive out' from ex- 'out of' + terminare 'to mark boundaries, set limits' from terminus 'boundary'.
I looked at a Doctor Who FAQ, and discovered that the Daleks were actually aliens in some kind of armor and not robots as I'd thought. They say "exterminate" a lot, but also "obey". Kind of childlike behavior, but what does it have to do with general education?
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umm, Daleks, Cybermen, Ice Warriors, Yeti, the Master, what was the name of the fish-type people?
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Ah yes, the Sea Devils, thank you.
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> what does it have to do with general education?
mebbe I should have hinted "Eks~terminate!" :)
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Well, en- is in and eks- is out, and e- in education is short for ex- which is also out as in e + duc + are. Education being a 'leading out of' an initial state of ignorance. Also, since I live in the Gubernator's state, I thought of Herr Schwartzenegger famous role as the Terminator. But I can't see the connection, yet. Now, where did I put that coffee? Never attempt problem solving without caffeine.
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The ex-Terminator is Austrian by birth. Was the Austrian govt. of the day particularly virulently against the French Encyclopedists?
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ah, good tries ~ but no banana, the answer is more linguistic or more cryptic-crossword than this direction of Arnie. Eks-terminate = ends with Eks...
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