Re: [atlarge-discuss] an Apology

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Sotiris, Joanna and all fellow members,

  No need to apologize. The phrase "Calling a spade and spade"
does not, and never has referred to a particular race. Rather
it refers to a suit in a deck cards, called "Spade" or "Spades".

Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:

> I must apologize for using a certain saying, specifically "calling a
> spade a spade" in my response to Walter Scmidt's response to Abel
> Wisman.  Joanna Lane just pointed it out to me offlist that the word
> "spade" has a racist meaning in UK slang.  Woops!  I am mortified.  I
> was completely unaware of that connotation, it's something one hears
> quite often in Canada, even on television(!), but now that you mention
> it, not many reflect on its meaning... I apologize profusely if I've
> offended anyone.  It was wholly unintentional.
>
> Thanks Joanna.
>
> Very Sincerely,
>
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos
>
> --
> -----------
>
> "The science of jurisprudence regards the state and power as the
> ancients regarded fire- namely, as something existing absolutely.
> But for history, the state and power are merely phenomena, just as for
> modern physics fire is not an element but a phenomenon.
>
> >From this fundamental difference between the view held by history
> and that held by jurisprudence, it follows that jurisprudence can tell
> minutely how in its opinion power should be constituted and what
> power- existing immutably outside time- is, but to history's questions
> about the meaning of the mutations of power in time it can answer
> nothing."
>                                      --Leo Tolstoy, "War and Peace"
>
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