"Bob LeChevalier" <lojbab at lojban.org> wrote in message
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> <raugust at ptd.net> wrote:
> >You see, for the "six million Jews" that were "killed" in the "holocaust"
> >(read my earlier post regarding the real meaning of that word),
>> Words mean what we use them to mean. Just as "gay" no longer refers
> only to how you feel on a bright spring day, holocaust no longer
> refers to the inside of a nuclear explosion. Live with it: the
> language changes.
True, Language changes. Holocaust originaly referred to burnt offerings.
http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=holocaust
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>> The term "Holocaust" is applied not merely to the deaths in WW II, of
> course, but to the entire pattern of abuse, torture, and attempted
> genocide by the Nazis against the Jews (and by some people against
> other non-"Aryan" minorities like the Gypsies, as well).
The Nazis do not have a monopoly on holocausts. It still happens today.
R.