All in a Don's Day by Mary Beard

Author:Mary Beard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Published: 2012-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

Comments

The style guide of the Guardian newspaper has this entry: ′innocent civilians: the adjective is superfluous′

MICHAEL BULLEY

Weren′t Marcus Aurelius′ campaigns against the Germans defensive rather than offensive?

I thought that huge waves of German and Samatian tribes were making serious incursions into Roman provinces, looting, burning and killing, and the Romans were somewhat desperately straining every resource to repel them.

MARKS

Given that the Taleban (which is Arabic for ′students′, by the way) are by definition not members of the armed forces of a state, the word ′non-combatant′ would be better. This is not the Guardian anyway!

GEOFFREY WALKER

Taliban is a Persian plural formation of ′talib′, the Arabic plural being ′tullab′ or ′talaba′. Arabic ′taliban′ would be the dual form: ′two students’. If only.

ANTHONY ALCOCK

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