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Re: NEWS: MicroSoft's Spanish language problems

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Friday, September 20, 2002, 10:43
Quoting Barbara Barrett <barbarabarrett@...>:

> > Thomas Typed; > > Generally agreed, but to be fair, the term "American Indian" > > is often considered less patronizing by many of the peoples > > it describes than "Native American" is. (Of course, this does > > not legitimize these other synonyms.) > > Barbara Babbles; > Would "native American" also be used to describe the indigionous peoples > of Central and South America? I'd have thought that with such PC terms > as "Afro-American" etc that "american" implied nationality.
I'm not sure that there's any consistent term in American English for the autochthonous peoples of the Americas who live south of the Rio Grande. I would think they'd be called by the term that the speaker normally uses for the indigenous peoples north of the border. ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637

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