[OT] Inuit? Eskimo?

[Peter Hansen]

Joost Kremers wrote:
> 
> 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.

And not just disfavoured, but deprecated *and* obsolete, except, clearly
in the some parts outside .ca, where in the context of this thread we
obviously have to say it's merely "obsolescent".  ;-)

-Peter