Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Mon, 16 Mar 92 09:06 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA02827; Mon, 16 Mar 92 09:03:37 EST Received: from pucc.Princeton.EDU by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA06090; Mon, 16 Mar 92 08:57:59 -0500 Message-Id: <9203161357.AA06090@relay1.UU.NET> Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.Princeton.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2951; Mon, 16 Mar 92 08:54:55 EST Received: by PUCC (Mailer R2.08 PTF011) id 4490; Mon, 16 Mar 92 08:54:42 EST Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1992 13:52:26 +0000 Reply-To: And Rosta Sender: Lojban list From: And Rosta Subject: onomastic politics To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Mon Mar 16 09:06:19 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Re. the idea that we should call people what they want us to call them. The Cambodians and Burmese who insisted we call their contries Kampuchea and Myanmar are not the nicest of people. A degree of improvement in Cambodia seems to have brought a return to the international name (_Cambodia, Cambodge_ etc.). Quite possibly when the present Burmese government loses power Burma will be Burma again. --- And