Villain
The term rogue is generally used to refer to a mean or evil person or criminal . The term is sometimes used in a trivializing or ironic way. There are numerous similar terms supported, including: crook , scoundrel , villain, Tramp , evildoers , villain or rogue .
A chapter in Knigge's work On Dealing with People from the end of the 18th century is aptly about correct “behavior against villains ” .
definition
According to Adelung's grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect , a villain is "a very common abuse word in the common vernaculars of all German provinces to designate a worthless male person of any kind". In English, in addition to bad guy, villain is preferably used in French .
etymology
The origin of the word, which has only been attested since the 17th century , has not been clearly established. Schurk or Schork, as it was called before, are perhaps related to stoke . In Old High German, for example, the fire stoker was called fiurscurgo and this mostly soot-black person was then the model for the robbers and crooks, who were also masked and made unrecognizable . In any case, a villain was someone who did evil, acted morally reprehensible, or had a low mind. On the other hand, the assumption that villains could have come from Lithuanian immigrants from the time of industrialization is not proven, since the Lithuanian word for rat , žiurkė , is pronounced roughly like "villain". Likewise, in Russian the derogatory term Чурка (Churka) is common for people from the Caucasus who are said to be badly behaved, violent and inclined to commit crimes.
Rogue state
More recently, the term has become prominent in connection with the German translation of " rogue state " for the term rogue state, which has been used by the US government since around 1997 . This refers to states governed by dictatorship that behave aggressively towards other countries and, in the opinion of the US government - and in some cases also its allies - undermine the stability of entire regions of the world and are inaccessible to international negotiations.
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- ↑ Adolph Freiherr Knigge: .html About dealing with people in the Gutenberg-DE project 5th edition from 1796. Edited by Michael Rüppel. (= Works. Ed. By Pierre-André Bois et al. Vol. 2). Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0410-9 , pp. 111-114 (I, 2.19; quotation p. 111).
- ↑ Rogue, the . In: zeno.org .
- ↑ Duden 7, Etymologie, Mannheim 1963, p. 625.
- ↑ Jacques Derrida : Villains. Two essays on reason. Translated by Horst Brühmann. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-58373-5 , pp. 135f. with reference to the critical observations by Noam Chomsky : Rogue States. The Rule of Force in World Affairs. South End, Cambridge, MA 2000, ISBN 0-89608-611-9 .
