Hair of the Politics that Bit You - 3 Nov. 2008
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🗓️ 3 November 2008
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:38.0 | And I'm Grant Barrett. In this political season, I find myself thinking about political language. I bet you do. political treasurer. That's two words. Do you know it? I have no idea. Leg treasurer. Somebody who |
| 0:56.0 | appreciates legs? Oh no no no this is somebody who abscons with government funds. |
| 1:01.4 | It's somebody who embezzles and runs off with the money to |
| 1:03.2 | Europe or someplace like that. And I just like it because it's descriptive, it's |
| 1:06.6 | colorful, the idea that you're you know you're stuffing wads of cash in your |
| 1:10.0 | pants and making off for the border. That's nice. That's an old term. |
| 1:14.8 | It is old. It's over a hundred years. It's old fashioned. We don't use it anymore, but |
| 1:19.7 | it still got its charm. Well, yeah, that's a weird one. I was thinking more recently of a word |
| 1:25.4 | that we're hearing all the time in terms of politics and that's the word |
| 1:28.2 | ballot. Do you have any idea where that comes from? I think I do as a matter of fact it's originally from Italian right? |
| 1:34.4 | Right the roots of this word are in 14th century Italy where people used to cast |
| 1:38.9 | votes by dropping a little ball into a box say a white ball for a yes vote and a black ball for a no vote and one of those |
| 1:45.8 | little balls was called a ballota. You see the same idea in our verb to |
| 1:50.0 | black ball somebody that that comes from dropping a black ball in a secret vote. |
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