From Matthew Weber Sent Fri, Mar 6th 1998, 04:16
From Matthew Weber Sent Fri, Mar 6th 1998, 04:16
Oh...I'd always thought "Madonna" meant something like "my lady." Isn't
"Madre" Italian for "mother"?
linguistically anal (ahem!),
Matthew Weber
Until now all human history has been only a perpetual and bloody
immolation of millions of poor human beings in honor of some pitiless
abstraction--God, country, power of State, national honor, historical,
judicial rights, political liberty, public welfare.
Michael Bakunin, _God and the State_
On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, M. Griffin wrote:
> From: "Zenon M. Feszczak" <xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxxxx.xxx>
> >Speaking of the fake Madonna, it always surprises me that people are not
> >insulted by her surreptitious acquisition of a sacred name.
>
> As for Madonna's "insulting... surreptitious acquisition of a sacred name,"
> that happens to be her birth name, not some kind of attention-grabbing
> stage name. So blame her mother...
>
> Speaking of which, "Madonna" really just means "mother." Now if she were
> calling herself "Madonna Mary Magdalene" or writing songs called "Like a
> Virgin Mary," you'd have reason to get bent about it.
>
> [Mike]
>
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