[OT] Inuit? Eskimo?

[Joost Kremers]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     "Native American" is to "American Indian" as ______ is to "Eskimo".
> 
> Anyone in the .ca domain care to educate the .us folks?

to the best of my knowledge, Inuit is the term that the original
inhabitants of (northern) Canada and of Greenland use for themselves. in
their language, Inuktitut, it is the plural of inut, which means 'man' or
'person'.

the word 'eskimo' was a pejorative term used by (non-inuit) peoples living
further to the south on the american continent, and has the meaning 'eater
of raw meat'. because of this origin, it is disfavoured.

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Joost Kremers
since when is vi an editor? a discussion on vi belongs in
comp.tools.unusable or something... ;-)