Exonyms [Re: English syllable structure]

Quoting Elliott Lash <AL260@...>:

> In a message dated Sun, 9 Dec 2001  2:03:28 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> writes:
> > And it occurs to me that Americans are the people who say /t@meito/
> > and /t{ko/ rather than /t@mA:t8u/ and /tA:k8u/ (those latter two
> > are Aussie pronunciations, and we're a mixed bag of American and
> > British, so I could be completly wrong there...).
>
> I say /t@meitow/ and /tAkow/ ..and again I'm from New York. Not everyone
> says the same thing in America..you can't just make generalizations like
> 'it occurs to me that Americans' :)
Yeah.  Language is one of those things that a lot of people
seem to paint with a broad brush when talking about America.
Another one is the habit that some Brits seem to have (or do
they not?) of calling anyone who happens to be a citizen of
the US a "yank". "yankee" in most of America refers to people
who live north and east of yourself. So, to Alabamians,
Marylanders are Yankees; to Marylanders, people from Pennsylvania
are Yankees; to people from Pennsylvania, New Yorkers are Yankees.
Although, people from Texas, say, would not call an Arkansan
a Yankee; it's not entirely relative. So, not a term of abuse
or anything, but definitely an exonym (for most Americans).

ObConlang:  Does anyone have exonyms in their conlangs for
their conculture? In Phaleran, the people who live on the
Northern continent of Lorendil are called _Magaroina_
'those who are afflicted with beriberi' (a thiamine
deficiency).

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