The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #134885 Message #3072446
Posted By: GUEST,^&*
11-Jan-11 - 05:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: You Know What Pisses Me Off?
Subject: RE: BS: You Know What Pisses Me Off?
An earlier post commented:
I find stupidity more offensive than so-called bad language. Witness a word the meaning of which is new to the language: rendition
FWIW:
Not that new, in fact. I remember randomly opening a page of a mid 19C. American text called something like "The State of the American Negro", or similar, written by an African American - it used the term "extraordinary rendition" to describe procedures for return of runaway slaves from Northern states. Seems to have been a legal term at the time?