The English term slave derives from the ethnonym Slav. In medieval wars many Slavs were captured and enslaved, which led to the word slav becoming synonym to “enslaved person”.[21][22][23] In addition, the English word Slav derives from the Middle English word sclave , which was borrowed from Medieval Latin sclavus or slavus ,[22][24][25] itself a borrowing and Byzantine Greek σκλάβος sklábos “slave,” which was in turn apparently derived from a misunderstanding of the Slavic autonym (denoting a speaker of their own languages). The Byzantine term Sklavinoi was loaned into Arabic as Saqaliba (صقالبة; sing. Saqlabi , صقلبي) by medieval Arab historiographers. However, the origin of this word is disputed.[26][27] In 1995, for the first time, a version was expressed, according to which the Greek word Σκλάβινοι does not come from the self-name of the Slavs, but from the Greek verb σκυλεύο - “to extract spoils of war”.[28][29] According to this version, the self-name of the Slavs and their Modern Greek name coincided phonetically purely by chance.
Sorry if I caused offence.
I’ll leave it to actual Slavs to decide whether they are offended.
Or he was fighting on the side of COVID and got betrayed?
These people boggle the mind, boggle the heart, boggle the stores of empathy I used to have on hand. They fucking boggle.
Oh, you can’t get betrayed by covid, because it never promises anything.
It feels like the ultimate manifestation of the “leopards ate my face” phenomenon.
But that “pooping cats” calendar, that’s a prime gift idea.
Touché.
Although, one could argue that to a certain group of people, they at least thought covid promised to kill of all the poors and the minorities.
Your leopards party comparison is quite apt.
“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in laughter and then threw a party.” – Obi-Wan
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