Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Babel Date: 30 Mar 2024 01:40:30 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="1517"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1608 Tim Merrigan wrote: >On 28 Mar 2024 22:40:08 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote: > >>Keith F. Lynch wrote: >>>Scott Dorsey wrote: >>>> Was Pancho Villa an authorized representative acting on behalf of >>>> the Mexican government? Or was he acting as a private citizen? >>> >>>Does it matter? If a bunch of armed foreigners working together cross >>>the US border to use force against Americans, that's an invasion. >> >>What if it's only one armed foreigner? >> >>>In 1066, was William the Conquerer an authorized representative acting >>>on behalf of the French government? >> >>He was the French government. L'etat, c'etait lui. > >He was the Norman government, Philip I was the French government. Yes! I stand corrected! --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."