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I was reading this article today and this sentence jumps out at me: There are a number of factors in such renegacy. something to do with reneging, an act of renegation(?), right? so I tried to LIU. it doesn't seem to be defined anywhere! not in W3, not in OED -- but it's much in evidence, and seems to have been often used by Marxists and the like, applied to former leftists who have reneged their views. (googling turns up lots of Lenin papers!) so, what the hey?! - joe (it's a conspiracy) friday
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Could it be regnancy
(n.) The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule
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no. read the article. google.
edit: a word they might have used is 'apostasy', but I suppose that smacks of religion too much for the socialists.
Last edited by tsuwm; 07/24/07 07:24 PM.
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I once worked with someone who insisted that any word could be converted from noun to verb to adverb to adjective and back again. Annoying trend!
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yes, language has annoyaic tendencies.
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For an excellent source of such words, and a good laugh, I recommend the works of Kim Il-Sung. Some friends had them all and I read or skimmed most of them in my mid-teens. Daffy dialectic at its creative best.
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... the works of Kim Il-Sung. Did he write them in English?
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... the works of Kim Il-Sung. Did he write them in English? I assumed they were translated from Korean.
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So it was the translator that came up with the words you love so.
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So it was the translator that came up with the words you love so. Indeed, and I never attributed the words themselves to The Beloved Leader. That would have been presumptuous, and contrary to the spirit of juche.
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