[OT] Inuit? Eskimo?

Anton Vredegoor anton at vredegoor.doge.nl
Tue Oct 21 19:29:58 EDT 2003


>    "Native American" is to "American Indian" as ______ is to "Eskimo".
>
>Anyone in the .ca domain care to educate the .us folks?

To my (eu-domain) eye the use of "American Indian" instead of "Indian
American" is strange. To mention that "Eskimos have more than X names
for snow" is not done here because of overexposure to the concept, yet
I did it twice today, once comparing it to the number of names French
Europeans have for "maronnes" and now this post.

Anton




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