February 28th, 2009

08:58 pm
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.