Re[6]: [tied] Anatolian

At 4:06:21 PM on Monday, October 24, 2005, george knysh
wrote:

> --- glen gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:

>> Brian:

>>> The use of 'nation' to refer to a people is
>>> obsolescent in popular usage; [...]

> ****GK: Depends on the "people" using the term (:=))
> They don't like the broader use of the term at the
> U.N. because it smacks of "the right of nations to
> self-determination" which is anathema to these
> gentlemen. They don't like it in many other quarters.
> I like it. I use it all the time, in proper context.
> So do my students.

But that is clearly not popular usage in the usual sense.

> I'm certain the usage will survive me and others like me.

I agree that it will survive as a semi-technical usage. The
nation/state distinction is very useful, and it would be
very difficult to do without the term in many historical
contexts. But that sense is so far gone from popular usage
that it didn't occur to me when I first read Gregorz post,
even though I'm perfectly familiar with it and have used it
myself.

Brian