The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #171697   Message #4153581
Posted By: Steve Shaw
24-Sep-22 - 09:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: The U.S. and the Holocaust
Subject: RE: BS: The U.S. and the Holocaust
I don't "want" the word to have one meaning but I do argue for the democratic evolution of language and the words therein. I'm very uncomfortable with your notion of European Jews "cornering the market." For the third time, the Hebrew language prefers Shoah to Holocaust, so there's no "cornering" going on from their perspective. More widely, there is a perceived issue this side of the pond that you yanks like to play rather fast and loose with some terminology that we Europeans are a bit more reticent about (you and your "free speech..."). That is not for this thread, though it seems to reflect in your attitude here, but I'll gladly take you on another time...