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I missed the Staff meeting, but the Memos showed that mike weber
<fairportfan.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:50:32 -0500 in
alt.books.david-weber :
>On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:50:38 GMT, Brian McDonald
><Brian_knowspam.McDonald.DeleteThis@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>>you would want to take this fellow with a grain of salt.
>>freedom stops famines? i wasn't aware the weather cared about the
>>political structure of the folks it was happening to. i also note
>>that he blames the British for various loss of life in india without
>>making any attempt to figure out how many of the dead were actually
>>the fault of british policy as opposed to the famine/drought itself.
>
>More than one "famine" has been a deliverate policy - Stalin
>engineered one in the Ukraine (i think it was), for instance, and
>that's merely the first that springs to mind.
>
>(Incidentally - who the f**k decided that it was "Ukraine", rather
>than either of the two formulations that had been common for years
>before - "Ukrainia" or "the Ukraine"?)

Slavic languages, if I recall rightly, have no definitive present
tense article, no "the". So it would be "Ukrania" in Ukrainian, which
would be Anglicized as Ukraine.
Like wise, La Argentina become The Argentine in English, then gets
"regularized" as Argentina. I am having grammar lapse, so cannot
remember if it is adjectival, or some other techno babble.


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