Re: ,Language' in language name?

From: "Josh Roth" <Fuscian@...>
>>Which, of course, isn't _really_ a name at all. "Germans" aren't
>>really German - they're "Deutsch". The external name is only a matter
>>of convenience - a handy label - for the external observer.
>
>I think I disagree. Is a piano not really a piano, because that is not what a
>piano calls itself? "Deutsch" is just as much of a handy label as "German"
>is.
Well, that's not strictly correlative because "piano" is a common noun, and not
a proper one.

I have a name.[1]  However I'm not always called by it; one guy calls me
'Animal', one insists on calling me /"muki/.  Whatever they call me doesn't
change my name, or, heaven forfend, what I am[2].

So the difference here is probably between "name" and "ekename", where "German"
is an ekename for "Deutsch".

        *Muke!

[1] This, by the way, is Big News.
[2] Am I an animal?  Technically.  Am I a /"muki/?  .. No.