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Re: [GWL]: Common errors in English

Title: Re: [GWL]: Common errors in English
 Chris brought up holocaust as a term commonly misused.  I also cringe when I hear people referred to as "Nazis."  To me, the two terms refer to situations and to people who are so horrendous, so severe, as to stand out from almost any other case.  Please don't refer to people as "surf nazi" (those addicted to surfing) or "soup nazi" (ala Seinfeld).  Fanatacism does not equal Nazism.

Ditto with the term holocaust which the URL Chris referred us to says ""Holocaust" is a Greek-derived translation of the Hebrew term shoah, which denotes a sort of ritual sacrifice in which the food offered is completely burnt up rather than being merely dedicated to God and then eaten. It was applied with bitter irony by Jews to the destruction of millions of their number in the Nazi death camps. Although phrases like "nuclear holocaust" and "Cambodian holocaust" have become common, you risk giving serious offense by using the word in less severe circumstances, such as calling a precipitous decline in stock prices a "sell-off holocaust."
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