Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

Tristan wrote:
>After the hole East Timor debacle, I can say for certain that Timorese
>means anyone/-thing from Timor, and East Timorese means anyone/-thing
>from East Timor. At least thats what the media and people of Oz were saying
Well, that'd be the logical usuage, but I've seen simply "Timorese" used
were they're, AFAOCT*, only refering to people from East Timor. One can only
hope that the usuage you describe is/will become the norm, tho'

                                                 Andreas

* =As Far As One Can Tell :-)
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