LL-L "Names" 2004.12.05 (05) [E]

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From: Ruth & Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2004.12.05 (04) [E]

Dear All:

Subject: LL-L "Names" 2004.12.02 (06) [E]

    More in the matter of names & name-calling. Among my favourite of
peoples is the Bushmen, that some so daintily PC want to call San.

    But there's a problem. San is an outsider term for them from the
Hottentots, the Khoikhoi. This word 'San'  & it's cognates though the
dialects, 'son', 'sonka', 'sonha, sonkwa', sonqua', is used by the Nama &
other Hottentots as to mean, 'peon', 'serf', 'villein', 'vagabond', thief &
what have you, generally negative, generally lower-class, & generally
contemptuous. This is a fair reflection of how the Hottentots saw them,
related to them, & used them, but it can hardly be called objective, let
alone fair.

    In justice to the scientific usage, one must refer again to the fact
that they, the Bushmen themselves, have no common name for their own kind in
their own usage (by no means unique in Africa). In default of one, the
linguists & anthropoligists fell back on one that at least existed.

    Ask a Bushman that is easy enough with your company to speak freely,
"Watse volk is jy?" & he is most likely to answer "Boesman!" This name as
they see it best describes what they are, what they do, & where they prefer
to be.
By the way, is there a PC term for the politically correct?

Yrs,
Mark

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