[Xmca-l] Re: anachronism

Helena Worthen helenaworthen@gmail.com
Sat Sep 15 19:48:57 PDT 2018


Can a person be an anachronism? Can a thing be “out of culture”?

If not, then we have lots of words for being out of culture— stranger, barbarian, alien, foreigner, visitor, ambassador, missionary, guest, invader, etc.

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> On Sep 15, 2018, at 7:37 PM, Andy Blunden <andyb@marxists.org> wrote:
> 
> Everyone knows what "anachronism" means. "Out of time" so to speak.
> 
> Is there a word for "out of culture"?
> 
> Andy
> 
> -- 
> Andy Blunden
> http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm <http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm>
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