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From: "Paul J. Kriha" <kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz>
Subject: Re: The Birth of Ethnonymy [was Re: Pronouncing your name in another language]
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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 08:53:47 GMT
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deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff) wrote:
>
> 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'!"

'the "Real People" person': "I heard that! You are 
   'Mutie' and 'Dumbie' arn'tya? Did you call me 'the Babbler'
   just now?

Paul JK.
