Trotskyist v Trotskyite

[Donna Ferentes]

It's an expression of scepticism. "Doubt everything" as the old man once said.

 

[In Bloom]

Personally, I prefer objectively counter revolutionary trotsky-islamo-fascist scum

 

[Donna Ferentes]

 

[In Bloom]

Don'tcha just love someone who can laugh at themselves

 

[Donna Ferentes]

 

[davgraham]

Isn't it just the sense of 'ite' as a suffix?

think of other words eg Luddite - always has a pejorative sense and was a name given to them rather than one they chose for themselves.

And to be fair [if one must] Trots call themselves 'TrotskyISTS' and as a previous poster said, it really gets up their noses if you call them TrotskyITES.

Hope this helps

Gra

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Possibly - it would be a question of English idiom rather than having occurred randomly. But is -ite considered pejorative? (Cliffite, for instance - whoever coinded it, do the people so described find that a pejorative usage?)

 

[davgraham]

Possibly - it would be a question of English idiom rather than having occurred randomly. But is -ite considered pejorative? (Cliffite, for instance - whoever coinded it, do the people so described find that a pejorative usage?)

Paisleyite?

Gra

 

[Donna Ferentes]

But then again there's no competing "Paisleyist" or "Cliffist" or "Luddist".

 

[FenceSitter]

I feel I must object to these content-free posts by this person.

 

[888]

Yeah! Let's lynch him!

 

[FenceSitter]

'888' - is that some Hitler codephrase?

 

[888]

Nein!

 

[FenceSitter]

Are you a German? How wonderful!

 

[davgraham]

But then again there's no competing "Paisleyist" or "Cliffist" or "Luddist".

. . precisely so, since [I assume] each of these epithets was coined by their enemies.

thus there must be an idiomatic usage of the suffix 'ite'.


maybe


gra

 

[Divisive Cotton]

The word revisionist makes me cringe. A lot.