bravo1102 wrote:Very cannily said!
So the government can't restrict various freedoms but every private institution can and does.
ayesinback wrote:"Rude" had a couple of meanings back then I think…
The most fun factoid is that we are descended from some guy in Medieval France who was entitled "The Rude". I imagine that you can't get much ruder that someone the French deem rude.
It's related to "rudimentary", it can mean "rough", "course", "crude", "simple", "basic", "nasty": Not only in the literal sense of what those words mean but also the symbolic meanings.
So he could have been a nasty, uncouth man, or a simple, rough hewn, brash sort of fellow maybe?
I LOVE the English language and how varied the meanings can be ^_^