<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div><div>On Jun 15, 2020, at 4:34 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] police<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Jun 14, 2020, at 7:48 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote: <span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Hi BillW…The local constables (in general) never heard of any of it.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">spike</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…<span style="color:black">Are you using ‘constables’ to mean ‘police’ or actual constables? If the former, it’s an example of the sort language change I mentioned earlier: the meaning of existing terms alters over time.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi Dan, “constables” are city-level police, a general term that covers the SWAT team, the specialty stuff that city-level cops do. At the county level are the deputies with the sheriff as their boss. State level police are troopers, national level are Feds. Four different types of police.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">When my bride’s great great grandfather was slain in the line of duty at age 32, leaving two young children and a widow, he was referred to as Constable Blundell in the news articles because he worked for the city.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike</p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">How the term was used in your spouse’s great-great-grandfather’s time probably isn’t a guide for how it’s used now. For California law — and be prepared for some legalese — see:</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.clrc.ca.gov/pub/2001/MM01-09.pdf" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 255);">http://www.clrc.ca.gov/pub/2001/MM01-09.pdf</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Is this mistaken? Or is there some official local title in your area of constable? </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You also keep using the term bride also to mean wife, I presume. Or is your marriage to her quite recent? I mean recent as a week ago or less. Again, an example of how language usage doesn’t adhere to the standard. (No problem for me as I know basically what you mean when you say “constable” or “my bride.” My point is why you have a hard time reading “fash” as slang for “fascist.”)</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div></div></div><style><!--
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