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Re: Hellenish oddities

From:Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 22, 2000, 8:13
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 06:44:52AM +0000, Raymond Brown wrote:
> At 9:44 pm -0500 21/11/00, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[Oskar wrote:]
> >> BTW, they don't want to be called 'Greeks', right? Perhaps we should be > >> politically correct and call them "Hellens", or even "Eleni", and call the > >> language "Hellenish" :) Just a thought. > > > >Uhhh... you're gonna hear a LOT from them about this one... prepare to don > >your flamesuit! :-) > > I just treat such xenophobic prejudice with contempt.
I'm confused... what xenophobic prejudice? For that matter, what is Oskar to fear being flamed for (besides disliking Greek)? -- Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo