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Article #3017Re: A better Valley name
From: Donald A. Hosek
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 00:00
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In article <4fmk9j$5jl@jobe.shell.portal.com>,
David H Close <compata@shell.portal.com> wrote:
>MHigby@Primenet.com says...
>>Actually, I wonder what the Indian name for the valley was before the Spanish
>>named it after their king (Fernidad). That might be a nice name.
>leem@tsunami.jpl.nasa.gov (Lee F. Mellinger) writes:
>>While I don't know what it was in Chumash, translated it meant "Valley of the
>>Smokes". It was called that for the haze that frequently covered it.
>The local haze is also mentioned by Dana in {Two Years Before The Mast}.
>But it isn't PC to mention that when anti-smog campaigns are underway.
Sure it is. What's non-PC is to say, it's always been hazy so there
isn't a smog problem. I think it's about time to take back the
underlying concept of PC (which is embraced by Rush Limbaugh, among
others): That is, that words matter, and people can do harm by
publicly denying the truth.
-dh
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,bbd8fd9eda670c0b X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: f59f9,bbd8fd9eda670c0b X-Google-Attributes: gidf59f9,public X-Google-Thread: 1123cb,bbd8fd9eda670c0b X-Google-Attributes: gid1123cb,public X-Google-Thread: 107d03,bbd8fd9eda670c0b X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public X-Google-Thread: 10a942,bbd8fd9eda670c0b X-Google-Attributes: gid10a942,public From: quixote@primenet.com (Donald A. Hosek) Subject: Re: A better Valley name Date: 1996/02/12 Message-ID: <4fov4u$klr@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> X-Deja-AN: 139188180 sender: root@primenet.com references: <MHigby.2395.039B5CAD@Primenet.com> <MHigby.2408.0460E9F2@Primenet.com> <4fcvg3$cuu@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <4fmk9j$5jl@jobe.shell.portal.com> organization: Quixote Digital Typography, Inc. x-posted-by: quixote@usr1.primenet.com newsgroups: la.general,la.news,ca.general,la.transportation,alt.california