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Re: Description vs. argument
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:32:31 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> You remember that war, right? That's the war in which we threw off the yoke
> of the British oppressors. It was a war about freedom, after all. So it's
> not too surprising if you forget the little details about it since it wasn't
> one of the British Empire's brightest moments to have the starch beaten out
> of it by a ragtag band of patriots (patriots armed with the latest military
> technology of the time, but a militia, not an army.)
I happen to feel connected to this particular fight since I'm from the US, but
it's really not my favorite of these examples. I prefer the one where
Shaka, using nothing but spears and genius, routed the British army in Zululand
(South Africa). That's the best defeat, I think. Talk about
ragtag.
Chris
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| (...) The keyword is militia. My dictionary says: militia a military force which only operates for some of the time and whose members often have other jobs, used either instead of or to support the official army. I’d hate to get involved in (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) From what I recall of history, the Zulus led by Shaka were anything but ragtag; they were an extremely well trained, organised and disciplined army consisting of men who had been taken into the army as boys and brought up in a military and (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) This can be taken many ways. If intended as a slur about our arts/literature/media, etc... it's irrelevant, and untrue. If intended as a comment on melting pots vs. many separate cultures, it's also untrue. The US has more of a unified culture (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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