Rpsh Posted 12 years ago
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jaw jaw and war war
Jaw jaw and war war
Mr Obama does not need the permission of Mr Assad. America does not recognise his regime; it has long called for him to be overthrown. Yet America can blunt his mockery and strengthen the anti-IS cause by raising the bombing of IS in Syria at the UN Security Council. A remarkably wide range of countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey, the region’s biggest actors, see IS as a threat and agree that it must be defeated, not just contained. Many of those countries should not just back the mission, but join it. Russia, Mr Assad’s sponsor, has an eye on its own jihadists in the Caucasus and has long argued that the danger is extreme Islam. For it to vote to shelter IS would be bizarre—and revealing of Russian nihilism.
There are two questions here:
1. Could you tell me what the characteristic of each word in the title is?
2. In the last sentence, the writer refers a word 'nihilism'. I found the explanation in Oxford dictionary which says "the doctrine of an extreme Russian revolutionary party circa 1900 which found nothing to approve of in the established social order". Could you tell me what the difference between "anarchism" and "nihilism"?
Mr Obama does not need the permission of Mr Assad. America does not recognise his regime; it has long called for him to be overthrown. Yet America can blunt his mockery and strengthen the anti-IS cause by raising the bombing of IS in Syria at the UN Security Council. A remarkably wide range of countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey, the region’s biggest actors, see IS as a threat and agree that it must be defeated, not just contained. Many of those countries should not just back the mission, but join it. Russia, Mr Assad’s sponsor, has an eye on its own jihadists in the Caucasus and has long argued that the danger is extreme Islam. For it to vote to shelter IS would be bizarre—and revealing of Russian nihilism.
There are two questions here:
1. Could you tell me what the characteristic of each word in the title is?
2. In the last sentence, the writer refers a word 'nihilism'. I found the explanation in Oxford dictionary which says "the doctrine of an extreme Russian revolutionary party circa 1900 which found nothing to approve of in the established social order". Could you tell me what the difference between "anarchism" and "nihilism"?
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rpsh 1. Could you tell me what the characteristic of each word in the title is? 'Jaw jaw' means talking; 'war war' means fighting.
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rpsh1. Could you tell me what the characteristic of each word in the title is?'Jaw jaw' means talking; 'war war' means fighting.
rpshCould you tell me what the difference between "anarchism" and "nihilism"?No idea if they are specific historical doctrines; the dictionary should show you the vague difference:
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I found that this parlance is rare on the internet. Could you say more about "war war"? Does it borrow the usage of "jaw jaw"? Or it is indeed a idiomatic expression to emphasis something with repetition a word?
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The original is, "To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war." ––Winston Churchill.
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