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    Patris= "Land of our fathers", from "Pat(e)r"=father and the ending -"is" which denominates place.
    Later on by the time of EB, it had evolved into "homeland".

    compare that to

    Country= "land of the count".

    I think it is time to re-legalize some of the most important words in IndoEuropean common dictionary that the Nazis appropriated and never quite gave it back. "Fatherland" is too important to be left to them.

    What it all comes down to, and this is why I think this AAR is hilarious, is that the Ubermensch (superman in german) of the Baktrians would be IndoIranians like the Kamboja (light IndoIranian cav.) or the Bahlikas (Baktrian cav.) and one of its elite infantry would be the Sreni swordaxe carrying guild infantry. They would be the big bulk of the army with hellenic phallanx and Baktrion agema as a smaller part of the army. Elite cavalry and the bodyguard would deffinitely be Hellenic, but the majority of the troops wouldn't.

    In fact Baktrians were the most accepting and "non-xenophobic" of all the Diadochoi. Which makes this AAR all the more amusing.
    Last edited by keravnos; 06-23-2008 at 11:10.


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    Quote Originally Posted by keravnos View Post
    I think it is time to re-legalize some of the most important words in IndoEuropean common dictionary that the Nazis appropriated and never quite gave it back. "Fatherland" is too important to be left to them.
    And the symbols, too. So we don't get stupid tourists asking what the Nazis did to the floor of the Amiens cathedral.

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    Bleh, all jokes are normally directed to something (gender/nationality/race/etc), now should I feel insulted by portuguese jokes brazilian regularly make about us? I couldn't care anything less.. I make jokes about black people in front of my black friends and they don't give a damn. I have some Sephardic Jewish blood (So says my father), so should I be really sensibilized and shocked when someone tells me a Nazi joke? Nope, and yet I find Nazi jokes the most funny I can remember of. They're jokes, and jokes are supposed to make fun of someone. Since the holocaust happened regrettably, people make fun of that. Just as I'm sure in a few decades, people might do jokes about terrorists and americans, 9/11 et al. (I'm not sure if they already do. If they do, those jokes haven't arrived in Portugal yet) Sad events later lead to jokes. And their created because normally their funny to people. Preventing from laughing at a joke "out of respect" for the sensibility of many victims and their famillies of the holocaust is just silly.
    BLARGH!

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