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- 31-Mar-2004, 21:50 #1Hong Kong Chinese Guest
Pagan and villain are good persons? It is very stange that originally both pagan and villain means those who live in the village, but now they have shifted to other meanings. How come? Some guess that it is because, in the old days, words were coined by noble who looked down village people!
- 31-Mar-2004, 23:29 #2
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Teacher 'Nice' used to mean 'stupid'. Mount Everest used to be at the bottom of the ocean.
- 01-Apr-2004, 00:58 #3
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Teacher Re: Pagan and villain are good persons? Interesting observation. :wink:
Originally Posted by Hong Kong Chinese
- 01-Apr-2004, 08:31 #4
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Teacher The nobles had little to do, so they were free to invent insults for there serfs. ;-(
- 01-Apr-2004, 17:20 #5
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Teacher Now we've changed "serfs" for "unwashed masses". :wink: Originally Posted by tdol
- 01-Apr-2004, 23:08 #6
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Teacher We say the 'great unwashed'.
- 02-Apr-2004, 00:03 #7
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Teacher That works. Originally Posted by tdol We say the 'great unwashed'.
- 02-Apr-2004, 00:49 #8
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Teacher Even if they don't.
- 02-Apr-2004, 02:10 #9
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Teacher Originally Posted by tdol Even if they don't.
- 02-Apr-2004, 12:55 #10Hong Kong Chinese Guest
Yes I should have stolen The Da Vinci Code's thunder. It was his observation!
