From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Wed Jun 12 2002 - 06:45:12 MDT
It appears as if Olga Bourlin <fauxever@sprynet.com> wrote:
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|Maybe so. But the "professionals" I know who word for a living do NOT call
|themselves proles - they think of workers such as the janitors and window
|washers "proles" (and I've noticed how, when confronted with a "prole-type
|worker," say, in an elevator, the professionals ignore them or move to the
|other side of the elevator pronto; talking to the "proles" at an office
|party, as you may well surmise, is pretty much out of the question).
"Prole" appeared in George Orwell's book ``Nineteen-eightyfour'' 1948, and
there it meant _proletarian_ (the unwashed masses, as it were).
Has the word appeared before that?
Or has somebody re-defined it lately?
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