Re: NEWS: MicroSoft's Spanish language problems
From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
Date: | Monday, September 16, 2002, 16:06 |
J Y S Czhang scripsit:
> a country whose population is mainly descended from Aztec and Maya Indians,
> the Microsoft program sugggested as alternatives for the word ''Indian:''
> ``man-eater'' or ``savage.''
All very well to say this isn't PC, but "indio" is a pejorative by all
reports nonetheless, and no less among Native Mexicans than others.
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