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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The words Balkanising and Balkanisation are frequently heard in discussions with regard to geopolitical matters. The reference is to the Balkans, a large area the borders of which are debatable. What isn’t debatable is its historical instability, with mutually antagonistic regions eventually overcoming rule by the Ottoman Empire for example, or the disintegration of what was Yugoslavia.
Bulkanising might suggest adding to rather than breaking down, but bulky with its connotations of being unwieldy, oversized and inconvenient could lead to a suitably eggcornish interpretation for those unfamiliar with the Balkans.
Falana had condemned the rigging of NBA elections by a cabal of lawyers and warned that it could lead to the bulkanisation of the body.
Diversity will not result in the bulkanisation of society as Putnam’s research indicates it is doing.
The truth is if we cannot tolerate each other now no amount of bulkanisation of Zimbabwe will ever bring prosperity to any particular group.
According to him, Mr Odinga had perfected the art of “bulkanising Kenyans into tribal outfits”.
I mean Africa bulkanised states who call themselves countries. We are all supposed to be one people with a common destiny.
Increasingly, the most populous black nation in the world appears bulkanised by widening fault lines and ethnicisation of policies and…
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A nice fat thumbs-up.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Discussed here: https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/vie … hp?id=6111
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Discussed here:
Odd that. I did a search on the z variant before posting and I’ve just done so again, without success.
Last edited by Peter Forster (2023-11-04 14:20:28)
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Same here, on the search. I was only able to find it because of a makeshift index I produced before I wrote the book.
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I think that Balkanizing also implies incompatible fragmentation.
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