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Jordan DeLong scripsit: > Them there savages can't not thunk it like us white folk. They > ain't even got no word for 'compassion', I tell ye. <p lang="en-ru">Ha. As is well known, superstitious Americans cannot even make obvious distinction between _sinii_ and _goluboi_, but refer to both colors as merely "blue". Further, they introduce spurious and irrelevant distinction between proximal and distal parts of obviously unitary body part _ruka_, namely "arm" and "hand". Americans clearcut victims of much dreaded Whorfian mind lock.<p> -- 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@hidden.email 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."