Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

andrew scripsit:

> Waaah!  It's at times like this I wish there was another New Zealander
> on this list so we could bore the rest of you lot to tears while we
> debated the merits of being a Pakeha New Zealander or a European New
> Zealander.
A damned interesting question.  In one of Orson Scott Card's novels,
there are three species, colloquially known as Piggies, Buggers (they
are insectoid), and Humans.  In a conversation between a Piggie and
a Bugger, one asks why there is no derogatory term for Humans.
The other replies: "'Human' *is* the derogatory term."

--
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter

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