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Re:The Great Language Game: How many languages can you disti... by jessaustin on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @02:11PM (#6322622)
Historically, "East Indian" meant something else entirely.

Is that also "annoying" to you? After all, some hillbilly somewhere might not appreciate the many nuances of differing cultural practices between Sumatra and Tamil Nadu. Worse yet, she might not even care! Is there any aspect of any European language that doesn't annoy you?

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Re:The Great Language Game: How many languages can you disti... by lake99 on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @03:01PM (#6322955)
> some hillbilly somewhere might not appreciate the many nuances of differing cultural practices

Are you seriously offering that as your reason too? That some hillbilly does it?

I'm done here.

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