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ElboRuum

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5. Oh, there's no risk there. Certainty hardly implies risk.

Reply to Goblinmonger (Reply #4)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 02:53 PM

Oct 2012

True, protector may be the meaning, but the patr- prefix implies a male or male derived or applicable concept, of which "protector" may be considered, in times when Latin was an active language, assumed to be a male role.

Nonetheless, I believe the choice of this particular scene may not be simply for the gape-mouthed yell visual, but to illustrate another patr- word... you know... patriarchy.

Oooh. Dash clever of them.

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