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    Woher kommt der Begriff "red tape"?

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    Woher kommt der Begriff "red tape"?

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    Hallo,

    ich wundere mich seit einiger Zeit, woher der Begriff englische Begriff "red tape" kommt.
    LEO ist sehr hilfreich bei der Übersetzung, denn mit "red tape" wird schlicht die Bürokratie oder bürokratischer Kram bezeichnet. Es erscheint mir jedenfalls als abwertender Begriff.

    Nur: Woher stammt dieser Ausdruck? Benutzten die Behören immer rotes Band, für ihre Mitteilungen?

    Ich wäre dankbar für eine Aufklärung!
    Beste Grüße
    AuthorChris09 Jan 07, 17:12
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_tape:

    "The origins of the term are obscure, but it alludes to the 17th and 18th century English practice of binding documents and official papers with red tape and were popularized in the writings of Thomas Carlyle protesting against official inertia with expressions like "Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence." To this day most barristers' briefs are tied in a pink coloured ribbon known as Red Tape.

    Traditionally, Vatican official documents were also bound in red cloth tape.

    Another origin tale circulated is that all American Civil War veterans' records were bound in red tape, and the difficulty in accessing them led to the current use of the term, but there is evidence that the term was in use in its modern sense sometime before this.

    Although grief over red tape is often seen as a right-wing conviction, Karl Marx wrote about the phenomenon of changing from one person in control of a complete task, to having multiple people each with specialties in specific tasks. He saw this occurring as society shifts from a Seigneurial system to a capitalist system. Although Marx drew different conclusions about this trend, it is often this abstraction among workers that is the source of red tape. This interpretation would explain why it is often perceived that the presence of red tape is increasing.    "
    #1AuthorBacon [de] (264333) 09 Jan 07, 17:15
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    related discussion: red tape

    Es gab mal eine ausführlichere Diskussion dazu, aber die scheint im Oktober vom Umzugswagen gefallen zu sein.
    #2AuthorSophil <de> (239990) 09 Jan 07, 18:17
     
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