chris t (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lifftchi) wrote,@ 2009-02-28 20:58:00 |
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long habit of non-enforcement.
Today I had a strong sense that the word "sabotage" was visibly fading from the language, becoming as dead as the term "sans-culottism". As dead, indeed, as the wooden shoes from which the word is said to have sprung.
"Terrorist", however, which I believe dates from the same time and place, is alive and well.
