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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: The Birth of Ethnonymy [was Re: Pronouncing your name in another language]
Message-ID: <1995Jan15.222154.16339@midway.uchicago.edu>
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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 22:21:54 GMT
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In article <D2G9pL.F36@actrix.gen.nz> "Paul J. Kriha" <kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz> writes:

>No sense of PC in those days :-)
>Nobody asked anybody "Excuse me, what is that you call
>yourself?"  :-)

"Why, 'the People'"
"But y'all can't be 'the People'!  We're 'the People'"
"No you're not, you're the 'Dirt People'!"
"Who are you calling 'Dirt People'?  We were 'the People' when 
	y'all were still 'Babblers'!"
"Who you callin' a 'Babbler', 'Dirt Person'?"
"Okay, let's cut this out.  We'll compromise:  you can
	call yourselves 'the People' and we'll call ourselves 
	'the First People', so other people won't get confused."
"Why do y'all get to be 'the First People'?"
"I just explained that!"
"Okay, if y'all call yourselves the 'First People', we'll call
ourselves 'Before the 'First People' People'."
"You wouldn't dare!"
"Try me, 'person after the 'Before the 'First People' People''!"
"But what will the other people think?"
"What 'Other People'?"
"You know, 'the Babblers'!"
-- 
	 Daniel "Da" von Brighoff    /\          Dilettanten
	(deb5@midway.uchicago.edu)  /__\         erhebt Euch
				   /____\      gegen die Kunst!
