Re: MS 991 unexpected impact in contacts eastward.

From: Seppo Renfors (Renfors_at_not.com.au)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:51:14 GMT

Inger E Johansson wrote:
>
> Seppo,
> Larry S seems to have missed that there is a word 'tract' which can be used
> for treaty.
> OED:
> tract = Short treatise or discorse esp. on religoious subject.
>
> treatise = Book or writing treating in formal or methodical manner of
> particular subject.
>
> English-Swedish dictionary
> 2nd alternative for 'tract' = religiös el politisk skrift, traktat
> English translation '= religious or political pamphlet, treaty/tract
>
> Swedish-English dictionary
> traktat = föredrag treaty; skrift tract
> Which means that a treaty is what's negotiated upon but the written text for
> it is called a 'tract'
>
> Which is also is the only English word I and my friends have heard used by
> English, French and other for the written text when we in during my years in
> politics discussed the written texts from a treaty. That's why I used it.
>
> End of story.

Yep, I'm aware of the many permutations - but I'm shocked at the
limited literacy capacity expressed by people in this group. It
appears to be endemic among a certain sector here - and they think of
themselves as a called "elite"! Hell the same people don't even know
how to use a knife and a fork at the same time, and claim that
inability as a "cultured and good manners" (that from personal
observation)!! Just because a word isn't used daily it still exists in
the form used and has the meanings expressed - even by the OED as
current use terminology.

Here are a few uses of the term "tract" claimed not to exist:

http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/LFBooks/Malcolm0180/17thCTracts/PDFs/Vol2/0086-2_Pt05_03Scobell.pdf
"The tract reprinted here fits into this genre. Scobell had, at least
once before, signed a tract with his initials. There is no record this
tract appeared during Scobell’s lifetime. It may have been a report he
had composed that remained many years in manuscript. The motive of its
publication in 1680 was to enhance the prestige of Parliament and the
House of Commons as a court at a crucial time."

http://www.bible-truth.org/msg59.html
"...they recited a prayer, walked an isle, were baptized, signed a
tract, spoke in tongues, were slain in the spirit, or had some
experience they are saved."

http://www.worldmissions.com/russmann/archives/ekklesia/2004/03/jack_chick.html
"Since he first began publishing tracts, Jack Chick has distributed
over...."

http://lftl.ag.org/gi-jrcouncilmen.cfm
"Get a tract signed by a home or foreign missionary"

http://www.notbored.org/UU.html
"In August 1956, a tract signed by the groups....."

http://www.ciaonet.org/book/the01/the01_18.pdf
"....translation of a tract signed Shaykh Ahmad Muhiyaddin Shaaban,
May....."

http://www.said-hajji.com/en/book-preface.html
"Said, having just returned permanently that year from the Middle
East, signed a contract as a proxy to represent the magazine's
interests in southern zone."

http://www.room85.com/docs2003/Unit5/SupremeCourt/Unit5%20SupremeCourtHistory.doc
"...may have been the March 1956 "Declaration of Constitutional
Principles", a tract signed by 101 of 128 members of Congress from
eleven southern and border states....."

Well..... that should be enough to give them a bit of an idea...

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