Re: David Baerwald
I was very interested by the linguistic/naming discussion. I recall hearing anecdotally that some of the currently-accepted tribal names in North America were misnomers, to the effect that as Europeans moved across the landscape and inquired as to what they would find in the next day's travel, the tribes with whom they spoke tended to say words like "those jerks to the north" and so forth, and those names ended up in the US lexicon as the actual names of the tribes.I take it with a grain of salt--I've not looked into it--but I would be interested in knowing.A friend is travelling to South Africa for the World Cup next summer. She's a pretty seasoned traveller, but I wonder if I could connect the two of you? I know she has all kinds of questions . . .
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I was very interested by the linguistic/naming discussion. I recall hearing anecdotally that some of the currently-accepted tribal names in North America were misnomers, to the effect that as Europeans moved across the landscape and inquired as to what they would find in the next day's travel, the tribes with whom they spoke tended to say words like "those jerks to the north" and so forth, and those names ended up in the US lexicon as the actual names of the tribes.I take it with a grain of salt--I've not looked into it--but I would be interested in knowing.A friend is travelling to South Africa for the World Cup next summer. She's a pretty seasoned traveller, but I wonder if I could connect the two of you? I know she has all kinds of questions . . .
Herring405
