From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Sep 30 04:27:38 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_4); 30 Sep 2002 11:27:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 12428 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2002 11:27:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 30 Sep 2002 11:27:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Sep 2002 11:27:37 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA16800; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 07:39:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200209301139.HAA16800@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 30 Sep 2002 07:27:07 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] metre To: nessus@free.fr (Lionel Vidal) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 07:27:06 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com (Lojban@Yahoogroups. Com) In-Reply-To: <000f01c26872$e38e27e0$e7c80950@ftiq2awxk6> from "Lionel Vidal" at Sep 30, 2002 01:15:31 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan Lionel Vidal scripsit: > I should have known better: after all, as I read in one of your pages > English is essentially a dialect of French. :-) But a strange one: see http://www.bartleby.com/81/5834.html -- First known example of political correctness: John Cowan "After Nurhachi had united all the other http://www.reutershealth.com Jurchen tribes under the leadership of the http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Manchus, his successor Abahai (1592-1643) jcowan@reutershealth.com issued an order that the name Jurchen should --S. Robert Ramsey, be banned, and from then on, they were all _The Languages of China_ to be called Manchus.