LL-L "Ethnonyms" 2005.11.01 (07) [E]

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01 November 2005 * Volume 07
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From: Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2005.10.27 (02) [E]

Dear Pat

Subject: LL-L "Lexicon"

>>Hottentottententententoonstelling
> I've been chuckling at this ... but isn't Khoikhoi the polite and
> considerate term today?

> Yours, killing time while re-installing a crashed GIS system,

You are very likely correct, which is a pity. The usage is more politically
correct than polite, which in my book reads 'emotionally dainty on someone
else's behalf'. Fortunately however, Khoikhoi is very nearly a collective
naun for that People, & a proud one. One cannot, for example, say the same
for that other word for the related People 'San'. This word has in default
of a suitable native word (they don't have one for their own kind as a
whole) become the anthropological term for 'bushmen', a name they prefer,
but for politically correct reasons is now avoided. Alas!

Yrs,
Mark 

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