Two nations divisible
[This is a guest post by Barbara Phillips Long]
There is an interesting sidelight in commentary about an article in the New York Review of Books, which posits that the U.S. is two nations under one government, where the two entities exchange political power. The link to the NYRB (paywalled) article is here.
The Language Log topic comes from the commentary at the Lawyers, Guns and Money blog, which wonders aloud about how the Greek word/concept "polis" gets translated in various languages:
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