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I gotta say, man...I grew up reading Vietnam memoirs, and your stuff is definitely overlapping with those. History definitely rhyming / powers that be learned nothing.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:But yeah, it actually just means "dark-skinned" (literally from the germanic for "black"), and it was Tolkien's way of telegraphing who the villian was. ( It was inevitably the black guy. Tolkien was pretty racist.) Joe Dever used it in his Lone Wolf series of game books in exactly the same way to the point where a “Swarthy Counter” is often a part of a forums play through.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I always saw it used to describe darker skinned people largely as a physical description of olive skinned/darker complected white guys. poo poo, I've been called swarthy, and I look Semitic as hell. If I'm using it incorrectly, I can change it. Like Conan was described that way. Swarthy comes from an Old English word for black (swaert, which I assume is cognate with the Dutch zwarte), per wiki. It’s been applied for everyone from Mexican to Middle Eastern to Italian to Irish, in addition to the expected black people, but usually not kindly as with all words for “dark” and all words for “other” people (xref definition 4 at the link: evil, malicious). https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/swarthy
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Man, that supremely loving sucks and I hope you and your family are all doing ok. After my experiences doing volunteer reconstruction work in New Orleans three years post-Katrina, I think the punishment for contractor fraud should be a sharp nail through the dick- a lot of people had contractors do a poo poo-rear end job with bad materials and shoddy labor then ghost as soon as the people realized what was up. Related: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/17/brad-pitt-foundation-settlement-owners-faulty-post-katrina-houses …many years later…
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