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Post by yigal on Nov 10, 2005 14:50:44 GMT -5
WTF is a weddoid, is that like a german veddoid lol or a married veddoid
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Post by RUDRA on Nov 10, 2005 15:10:15 GMT -5
I don't know what a weddoid is, to me its just a word. Yet I use veddoid to describe peoples who look like this: Personally I don't like some of these words(dravidian, Aryan, irano-afghan) when describing peoples. Because they get confusing, and many have two or three different meanings attached to it.
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Post by Agrippa on Nov 11, 2005 3:16:40 GMT -5
Thats why I use the same terminology and suffix system all the time. Yes, Weddoid is the same Veddoid...
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Post by RUDRA on Nov 12, 2005 23:40:20 GMT -5
Thats why I use the same terminology and suffix system all the time. Yes, Weddoid is the same Veddoid... The Problem is that even though veddoid was a name given to vedda people who look like this: Most vedda today, because of mixing with sinhalese(an extremely heterogenous group coming from north-east india) can look like these people: A person not knowing much about indian & lankan history would think that modern vedda people are best examples of this veddoid racial type. But tribal groups in south india like the irulas, kadar and even the chenchu are better examples, because they have not completely mixed with foreign groups like the veddas have. So can you see the confussion now? I am not blaming you or anybody else, just saying that the terminology can have many different meanings attached to it.
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Post by Agrippa on Nov 13, 2005 8:24:39 GMT -5
Obviously mainly for people who neither read the biological and cultural anthropology and ethnology books, but go just after the name itself. But thats true for many areas of science in which termini have a specific meaning in a specific scientific context - and not necessarily the same as in non-scientific language. The problem are mainly those people with just dont want to read works but think they know everything by just being able to name this or that...
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Post by RUDRA on Nov 14, 2005 21:39:52 GMT -5
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