Comics to be illegal in UK?

Oakman

With all due respect to opposing points of view, I have never seen a laissez-faire capitalist society, nor a totally socialist society. I have seen Capitalism flourish under the worst dictatorships imaginable (ones that maintained at least a nominal Christianity) and I have seen Socialism proclaimed as the law of the land by equally reprehensible dictators who claimed to be warriors of Islam. In my most humble opinion, in religion, in politics, in economic theory, and probably everything else, there are two groups. Those who think that there are people who have or should have the right to use force to tell others what to do and how to do it (always for their own good of course) and those who think that a legal, religious, social concept that must be enforced by the use of police is an abomination. And no, I've never seen nor heard of a society where power didn't come from the barrel of a gun, either. :sigh:

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

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Oakman

Ka?l wrote:

If you've got a better translation for 'marotte' I take it.

In English that means "fool's head" as in what is stuck on a spring in a Jack-in-the-Box.

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

KaRl

The word is borrowed from the French, where it signifies either a fool's (literal) bauble, or a fad/craze.[^]

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Dalek Dave

Pope Clement XIII was the one! He asked for Fig Leaves to be carved and placed on the genitalia of all the statues, because he felt that the human body was rude and he was a prude! What an Arse!

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Oakman

Ka?l wrote:

The word is borrowed from the French

You asked for the translation did you not? Why would anyone care what the French thought? Approximately 1/3rd of all the words in English are loan words from a latinate language. In all cases, what matters in not what the original meaning was but what it means now, in English.

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

KaRl

Oakman wrote:

You asked for the translation did you not?

You did not provide one, you just gave the signification of the corresponding english word. That is not translation.

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Oakman

Ka?l wrote:

You did not provide one, you just gave the signification of the corresponding english word. That is not translation.

OK. Marotte means "Karl"

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

BoneSoft

Ka?l wrote:

the signification of the corresponding english word

:wtf: OK I give. What's the translation for the word "translation"? :rolleyes:

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Shog9 0

Karl seems to be caught in the grinning teeth of a "single-line-snappy-response" fad. ;-P

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BoneSoft · modified on Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:49 AM

Fair enough. My only point was that, not only does Socialism not require a culture to start off Christian, but that Christianity is an obsticle for it in some cultures. I was just backing you up with communist theory currently in practice.

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