[Marxism] A pressing question for comrades
Einde O'Callaghan
eindeoc at freenet.de
Thu Jun 11 15:58:44 MDT 2009
David Thorstad wrote:
> As an editor, this word has not yet cropped up, but because the "y"
> sound is already in Kautsky's name, the addition of an "i" would seem
> highly problematic. How would it be pronounced? With two "i" sounds ("y"
> and "i")? That is unfelicitous, to say the least. To say that the two
> sounds represented by the two letters would elide is only evading the
> question. So, I would go with "Kautskyan"; or "Kautskyist"; or "Kautskyoid."
If I recall correctly the "classical" adjective was "Kautskyite" in the
polemical slanging matches.
Einde O'Callaghan
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