Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 25, 2001, 1:38 |
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>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'>
Poor Timor Leste, or Timor Lero Sae. Does it have any hope of succeeding as
a "country"? About the only thing holding it together is Catholicism; maybe
anti-Indonesianism will help, for a while. It is not an ethnic or
linguistic or cultural unity; pre-1975 it was one of the few areas of
Indonesia (aside from Irian) that still had enclaves of non-Austronesian
languages.
The US, as major patron of Suharto's regime, bears major blame for what
happened there; Australia is not blameless either, but at least when action
was needed, Australia rose to the occasion and can be proud of that.
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