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poliphilo Melee.
It's one of those words from another language we've adopted into English because nothing we can come up with ourselves is quite as good.
It means a confused hand to hand fight. Wikipedia tells me it first appeared in 1648- just too late to be of use to the combatants in our Civil War- which saw a lot of that kind of fighting.
Someone I follow on Youtube said of the state the world currently finds itself in that "the melee is beginning".
I like it. Not the situation but the aptness of the word.
The restraints are off, orders are not being obeyed, no-one quite knows what is going on. So lets just keep banging away- and eventually the smoke will clear and then we'll see who's still standing and what flag is flapping on the ramparts....
It's one of those words from another language we've adopted into English because nothing we can come up with ourselves is quite as good.
It means a confused hand to hand fight. Wikipedia tells me it first appeared in 1648- just too late to be of use to the combatants in our Civil War- which saw a lot of that kind of fighting.
Someone I follow on Youtube said of the state the world currently finds itself in that "the melee is beginning".
I like it. Not the situation but the aptness of the word.
The restraints are off, orders are not being obeyed, no-one quite knows what is going on. So lets just keep banging away- and eventually the smoke will clear and then we'll see who's still standing and what flag is flapping on the ramparts....
