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In article <24830@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master) writes:

> }Terrorists murder people.  They do it very messily.  Arms, legs, heads,
> }intestines, part company from each other and fly all over the street.
> }I'm not aware that Apple Computer does this sort of thing.  Grow up.
> 
> What an odd definition of terrorism.
> 
> According to Mr Webster:

Hmm - it seems that North Americans use the word "terrorist" in a totally
different way to the way it's used here in the UK.  Here, it generally
means "violent political murderer with no conscience".  I'd guess the
difference comes from the fact that this sort of activity is much less
common in North America.  Anyway, to British ears it's rather upsetting
to hear the word debased by being used casually to refer to non-violent
non-murderers who happen to be nasty in some other way.

Webster's being a purely North American dictionary, it would tend
to give the West-of-the-Atlantic definitions.  I don't have a 
dictionary with me, but I'll bring it in if anyone argues again :-)
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	-- Chris. 	cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk   (on Janet, cc@uk.ac.ed.dcs)