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29th June 2021, 04:31 AM
camouflage
1917, noun, verb, and adjective, from French camoufler, Parisian slang, "to disguise," from Italian camuffare "to disguise," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps a contraction of capo muffare "to muffle the head." Probably altered in French by influence of French camouflet "puff of smoke, smoke puffed into a sleeper's face" (itself of unknown origin) on the notion of "blow smoke in someone's face." The British navy in World War I called it dazzle-painting. Since the war started the POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY has published photographs of big British and French field pieces covered with shrubbery, railway trains "painted out" of the landscape, and all kinds of devices to hide the guns, trains, and the roads from the eyes of enemy aircraft.
Until recently there was no one word in any language to explain this war trick. Sometimes a whole paragraph was required to explain this military practice. Hereafter one word, a French word, will save all this needless writing and reading. Camouflage is the new word, and it means "fooling the enemy." [Popular Science Monthly, August 1917]
Above from Etymology Online.
The legal profession for centuries has used a device called 'word construction' to substitute a phrase of two or more words for a more complicated meaning. This is a shorthand to save time and effort left over from a bye gone era when the clerk charged by the word. There are volumes of books written to keep track of these word constructions.
Here is an example:
MEDICAL CARE - THE TERM "MEDICAL CARE" MEANS AMOUNTS PAID FOR -
A. THE DIAGNOSIS, CURE, MITIGATION, TREATMENT, OR PREVENTION OF DISEASE, OR AMOUNTS PAID FOR THE PURPOSE OF AFFECTING ANY STRUCTURE OR FUNCTION OF THE BODY.
B. AMOUNTS PAID FOR TRANSPORTATION PRIMARILY FOR AND ESSENTIAL TO MEDICAL CARE REFERRED TO IN SUBPARAGRAPH (A), AND
C. AMOUNTS PAID FOR INSURANCE COVERING MEDICAL CARE REFERRED TO IN SUBPARAGRAPHS (A) AND (B).
This is what 'medical care' means as intended by the Affordable Healthcare Act (ObamaCares).
This is blowing smoke. This is "fooling the enemy". This is CAMOUFLAGE!! "MEDICAL CARE" is AMOUNT PAID.
YOU don't RECEIVE medical care. You GIVE medical care. YOU are the PROVIDER of medical care.
Are you licensed to be a medical care provider?
1917, noun, verb, and adjective, from French camoufler, Parisian slang, "to disguise," from Italian camuffare "to disguise," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps a contraction of capo muffare "to muffle the head." Probably altered in French by influence of French camouflet "puff of smoke, smoke puffed into a sleeper's face" (itself of unknown origin) on the notion of "blow smoke in someone's face." The British navy in World War I called it dazzle-painting. Since the war started the POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY has published photographs of big British and French field pieces covered with shrubbery, railway trains "painted out" of the landscape, and all kinds of devices to hide the guns, trains, and the roads from the eyes of enemy aircraft.
Until recently there was no one word in any language to explain this war trick. Sometimes a whole paragraph was required to explain this military practice. Hereafter one word, a French word, will save all this needless writing and reading. Camouflage is the new word, and it means "fooling the enemy." [Popular Science Monthly, August 1917]
Above from Etymology Online.
The legal profession for centuries has used a device called 'word construction' to substitute a phrase of two or more words for a more complicated meaning. This is a shorthand to save time and effort left over from a bye gone era when the clerk charged by the word. There are volumes of books written to keep track of these word constructions.
Here is an example:
MEDICAL CARE - THE TERM "MEDICAL CARE" MEANS AMOUNTS PAID FOR -
A. THE DIAGNOSIS, CURE, MITIGATION, TREATMENT, OR PREVENTION OF DISEASE, OR AMOUNTS PAID FOR THE PURPOSE OF AFFECTING ANY STRUCTURE OR FUNCTION OF THE BODY.
B. AMOUNTS PAID FOR TRANSPORTATION PRIMARILY FOR AND ESSENTIAL TO MEDICAL CARE REFERRED TO IN SUBPARAGRAPH (A), AND
C. AMOUNTS PAID FOR INSURANCE COVERING MEDICAL CARE REFERRED TO IN SUBPARAGRAPHS (A) AND (B).
This is what 'medical care' means as intended by the Affordable Healthcare Act (ObamaCares).
This is blowing smoke. This is "fooling the enemy". This is CAMOUFLAGE!! "MEDICAL CARE" is AMOUNT PAID.
YOU don't RECEIVE medical care. You GIVE medical care. YOU are the PROVIDER of medical care.
Are you licensed to be a medical care provider?