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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: LindyBill who wrote (1876)1/7/2003 10:58:33 AM
From: zonder  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 15987
 
However, the Jews do have the excuse that God gave it to them

Very funny. I thought we were fighting religious fundamentalism.

Dictionary definition.
A member of the indigenous or earliest known population of a region; a native.
often Aborigine. A member of any of the indigenous peoples of Australia.


So do you see it or not?

It is like calling Io (a satellite of Jupiter) "Moon". It fits the definition of "moon" but "Moon" is a word that has come to be used for the satellite of our planet Earth. So it would be confusing, if not incorrect, to call it "Moon".

When you say "Aborigine", everyone thinks you are talking about Australian natives. I don't know what you think you are proving by giving dictionary definition, which point to this use as "OFTEN" used in this context anyway.