autonym

[Wilson Gray]

That probably should read "... how *some* people of color refer to themselves."

Was it S. I. Hayakawa who wrote something like (newly-discovered
"savage" replying to question, "Who are you people?"):

"Who are *we*? Why, *we* are *people!*"? [Tell me, who are *you*?! I
really wanna know!]

-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain





On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 5/8/2009 12:21 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
>>AHD 4th edn
>>http://www.bartleby.com/61/87/A0538750.html
>>A name by which a people or social group refers to itself.
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> Thanks. Â This definition seems useful -- e.g., for talking about how
> "people of color" refer, and used to refer, to themselves.
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> Joel
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