The term ‘Pawn’ is absolutely a Chess reference. The Pawn, while equally powerful enough to take out any piece on the board, is by far the most limited in its innate ability to do so. Additionally, their positional state on the board is such as to act as a body shield to the “more important” pieces behind it. More specifically, to protect ‘The King’. As such, the term Pawn has come to have a derogatory meaning representative of an individual who is expendable and under the control of someone superior, as opposed to controlling their own destiny,…even foregoing self-preservation.
Edit: An alternative, but not quite as meaningful,… how do you feel about the term “cannon fodder”?
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[quote]The term 'Pawn' is absolutely a Chess reference[/quote] this is flat out wrong and I don't know why you're so confident about it
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Middle English pown, from Anglo-French peoun, paun, from Medieval Latin -blam!--, -blam!- meaning foot soldier. The game of Chess solidified it’s commonality within the structure of the English Language. Do you have an alternative origin?
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You just decided the fact that chess "solidified its commonality." A cursory search on the word's etymology repeatedly shows the paragraph you copy-pasted, but that little assertion seems to have slipped in somewhere.
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Again, I ask, do you have an alternative that you want to provide evidence to support? Otherwise, if your sole purpose was intended to discredit me, consider your efforts victorious and find a new subject of your trolling. I no longer have any interest.