Posted on 04/14/2005 2:34:37 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
There, there, little fecum.
Sorry. "Diablo" means devil in Spanish. With a small 'd'.
Man, If he complains over such an "offencive" and forsaken name such as that, he'd might as well sue the U.S Board of Geographinc names over "Hell's Backbone" also. (which is located in Utah...of ALL places...)
wha?
and he also wants to rename the Tazmanian Devil the Tazmanian half dog....
13 seconds Dog....13 freakin seconds....
LOL, we think alike but I type faster.
Ok, so what is Art Mijares' religion? At the risk of being prejudice, I'll make an assumption with Mijares as a last name he might possibly Catholic. Last time I looked in my Catholic Bible, Satan is mentioned several times however, I haven't run across Kawukum. Exactly what does the word mean? And was this unidentified Indian cursing the Spanish out at the time he said the word? If Mijares can prove the unidentified Indian was a man of God and the word Kawukum is godly, then I might listen to his plea. I won't change the name, but I'd give him 5 minutes. And something else, he's supposed to be a leader of young boys, yet he can't bring himself to say the word Diablo??? Wimp.
Hey Art Mijares, why don't you learn the old saying:
"Take no offense where none is intended."
Oh, and grow up, and stop wasting everyone's time.
Next he'll be demanding that the coffee drink called "Cafe Diablo" also be renamed.
Where does the madness stop?
Spanish translation: Blood of Christ
or maybe you think faster but I type fast enough to ALMOST make up the difference :)
Obviously this clown never saw "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" either, as it prominently features Devil's Tower, Wyoming.
In other news....
Mountain Finds Man's Name Offensive
Now see this:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:TQ4ndzgMn4cJ:geonames.usgs.gov/Docket388.pdf+Kawukum&hl=en
He wanted to change it to either Kawakum or Reagan.
I'll bet this guy can't stand it when the Duke Blue Devils play the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest and is tied up in knots because people do things for the hell of it instead of for the heaven of it. A lot can be learned from Hayakawa and other semanticists. A word is not necessarily a thing. Calling a policeman a pig doesn't make the policeman a pig, calling a Vietnam veteran a baby killer doesn't make him a baby killer, and so forth. In this frenzied time, we all are too willing to slap a label on people and positions, and to subsequently accept the label as establishing that the person so-labelled posseses all of the characteristics the label implies, not just some of them, and sometimes posseses only one of them.
Could the other 95% of us happily say any more "don we now our gay apparel." or "seems like only yesterday, I was happy, light and gay"? Interest groups are always appropriating words and trying to make them forbidden or to make them more inclusive or less inclusive than they have heretofore been generally understood to have been, or to now be representative of something quite different from what they used to mean; watch out for it, and when it happens, recognize it. Hillary is certainly a dork and a prick with ears, although she is actually and literally neither a dork nor a prick with ears if we speak with linguistic precision. Language, linguistics, and semantics are very complicated things, but the average joe blow probably doesn't need to be protected. Give us fellows and fellowesses some credit for seeing through Public Relations blather, promotional efforts, balderdash, and bullshit, and even to resist until well-digested a good deal of this popular linguistic misrepresentation. Even when the mainstream media is confused by some torrent of words (that are not necessarily things) we who have good sense do not get confused by phony baloney, which is not not actually anything, literally, but is nonetheless an expression we can perfectly well understand. We are fed a lot of phony baloney, and this Diablo Mountain bit is easily recognized as phony baloney, n'est pas?
This is Squaw Tit Mountain in Idaho
To posts 1 thru 11, does your answers mean he is´t get any sympathy?
In Oklahoma, the Indian Meridian is the N-S reference which all all land surveys incorporate.
It's not just the maps, it's all the land surveys and other legal papers which include "East (of the) Indian Meridian" and "West (of the) Indian Meridian" as part of land legal descriptions. Somehow, "Native American Meridian" just doesn't have the ring. It may glitter, but it ain't 24K gold.
And darn it, most of Oklahoma before 1907 was known as "Indian Territory". We should change that to Native American Territory?
When, if ever, will the headline grabbers get off the idea of changing any name that doesn't quite suit them? Maybe someone should change the name of Death Valley.
But then what happens to "Death Valley Days", with Ronald Reagan doing the introduction to each episode?
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