On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Raymond Brown wrote:
> The term
> seems to me to be restricted only to those who (a) live south of the
> Sahara, and (b) whose ancestors have been in Africa for at least the past
> four centuries.
And (c) those whose ancestors have been in the New World (not necessarily
the U.S.) for two centuries or more. Immigrants from Senegal are simply
Africans.
> Good grief, I can barely trace my own ancestry back to the last (i.e. 19th)
> century - goodness knows where some of my forebears were 400 years ago!
*sniff* And me descended from kings. Why I associate with all you riffraff
is beyond me.
:-)
> But one reason I join lists like conlang is to afford a short period of
> escapism. That's why I suggested we, maybe, returned to conlanging.
In time this too shall pass.
--
John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
"[O]n the whole I'd rather make love than shoot guns [...]"
--Eric Raymond