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- From: kozlowsk@acs.ucalgary.ca (Don M. Kozlowski)
- Subject: Re: RFD: soc.culture.native.america
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- Message-ID: <92Dec22.171354.19326@acs.ucalgary.ca>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 17:13:54 GMT
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- In article <1906@frackit.UUCP> dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe) writes:
- > In article <WARKENT.92Dec14103204@ltisun14.epfl.ch>, warkent@ltisun14.epfl.ch (Ken Warkentyne) writes:
- > > Concerning "native", "indigenous", and "aboriginal".
- > >
- > > My Concise Oxford has the following definitions. My comments enclosed
- > > in square brackets.
- >
- > [ ... ]
- >
- > > "aboriginal" (adj.)
- > > 1. Indigenous, existing in a land at the dawn of history, or before
- > > arrival of colonists. [the best option, in my opinion -kw]
- >
- >
- >Agreed. Even my little pocket New Websters defines aborigine as "early
- >native of a country"
- >
- >soc.culture.aborigonal.* anyone?
- >
- [stuff deleted]
-
- I would vote against the group soc.culture.aborigonal.* on the
- basis that it's misspelled. In fact I would prefer that
- soc.culture.aboriginal not be used either because it would be
- likely to be misspelled. Even people quoting from articles with
- the correct spelling (see above) have trouble with it.
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