autonym

[Darla Wells]

I have been meaning to ask you all about that. I read somewhere that many
people have names referring to themselves as people and call outsiders other
names; I think the example used was the Navaho calling themselves Dine and
outsiders calling them Navaho. Is that another linguistic urban legend?
Darla Wells

2009/5/8 Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com>

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> That probably should read "... how *some* people of color refer to
> themselves."
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> Was it S. I. Hayakawa who wrote something like (newly-discovered
> "savage" replying to question, "Who are you people?"):
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> "Who are *we*? Why, *we* are *people!*"? [Tell me, who are *you*?! I
> really wanna know!]
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> -Wilson
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> 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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> 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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