Re: localisation in system wide daemons
Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> writes:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Hindu is an adjective that describes someone whose faith is
>> hinduism. It is not a language.
> And, according to Merriam-Webster[1], a native or inhabitant from India.
> [1] http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=hindoo
There are scattered bits of imperialism in the English language that went
in when the people speaking it didn't care about fine distinctions, such
as the religions of people they were conquering or the difference between
a religion and an ethnicity. It's probably best to not preserve them.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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