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- From: ewald@math.lsa.umich.edu (Brian Ewald)
- Subject: Re: "Bilingual Education"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.034010.19118@lsa.umich.edu>
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- Organization: University of Michigan, Mathematics Department, Ann Arbor
- References: <640.18.uupcb@pcs.sj.ca.us>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 03:40:10 GMT
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- In article <640.18.uupcb@pcs.sj.ca.us> paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett) writes:
- >Oh, my - are you not aware of the _original_ mistake made in the late
- >1400's by Columbus _et al_ who were _so_ lost and _so_ ignorant of
- >geography they didn't know the American continents were even there and
- >they thought they were in India (that _is_ where they were intending to
- >go, after all), and therefore all these folks they found must be
- >"Indians". That's the _only_ reason North/South/Central American
- >aborigines are called "Indians."
- >
- Actually, Columbus thought he was in the Indies, not in India. If
- you're going to be sarcastic, at least be right.
-
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- Brian Ewald
- ewald@math.lsa.umich.edu
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