2nd August 2004, 8:01 AM
Not ALL the people we call Eskimos are Inuits. So, what word ARE we supposed to use to refer to all those tribes as a whole, or do you expect us to learn ALL the tribe's names? No thanks. I'll just call them all eskimos.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)