Two links.

May 11, 2005 20:26

Ah, I go through this same kind of nonsense constantly when I trawl the EU2 boards. People talk about places, and I have no idea what they mean until someone calls the place by its old name. Like anyone really cares if you call Myanmar Burma.

http://olimu.com/Journalism/Texts/Commentary/Ethnonymy.htm

I read about this a few months ago and it still cheeses me off. "Let's use the most vulnerable and powerless segment of the population as guinea pigs! And then threaten to take the kids away if their foster parents protest!"

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050504/D89SKLCG0.html

news, kvetching

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