Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: The OIT state of the art

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From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "Arnaud Fournet" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 3:21 AM
Subject: Re[2]: [tied] Re: The OIT state of the art


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> At 6:04:35 PM on Saturday, September 20, 2008, Arnaud
> Fournet wrote:
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>> I have never seen this meaning of Creole : "a person of
>> European ancestry born in the colonies."
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> <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Creole>
>
> Brian
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I checked in the http://atilf.atilf.fr
French references.

Creole used to describe the white Europeans
And "Par extension" the blacks.
I guess now Creole can only describe the blacks.
it would be misunderstood to describe white people as creole.
I was not aware that it used to describe white people first !
I probably misread Gobineau having a Creole grand-mother,
actually she probably was white in fact.

Arnaud