Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Fun quirks of language 03

Here's something fun I noticed when comparing the entries for the word "Republican" in Dictionary.com:

re·pub·li·can
(rĭ-pŭb'lĭ-kən)
adj.
  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a republic.
  2. Favoring a republic as the best form of government.
  3. Republican Of, relating to, characteristic of, or belonging to the Republican Party of the United States.

n.
  1. One who favors a republic as the best form of government.
  2. Republican A member of the Republican Party of the United States.
And the Urban Dictionary:

Republican - An individual who believes that the white male Christian God should be the only object of worship on the planet, that power and wealth should remain in the hands of 1% of the world's population while the remaining 99% starve, that health care should be privatized so the poor can't afford basic medication, that a rape victim living on welfare should be forced to care for a baby she didn't even ask for, and that America is the only real country on Earth while all those other countries they read about are just fakes invented by communists...oh wait, it's terrorists now, isn't it?

And listed among the related words: idiot, moron, redneck, hypocrite, nazi, GOP, racist, evil, hick...

Oh, and by the way, I just laughed out loud when I saw this.

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