Talk:New England

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I was gonna post this section, but I think it's more parody than ultrabias, so I'll leave it out unless people want it elsewhere:


 * The term "New England" used to describe early British colonial territory in America was quite creatively and strategically coined. In fact, it had nothing to do with the fact that it was a part of "England" that was "New". Instead, colonists used their detailed and open-minded study of Native American culture and language to form a detailed sociolinguistic ethnography. Then, when the colonists decided they wanted to screw the Indians over, they began by engineering a new name to which they would refer to all the colonial territory: they took the Indian word for "Go f*** yourself while I rape and pillage everything you care about", nuinulan, and added to it several British consonant clusters that were difficult or impossible to pronounce in the aboriginal languages. Colonists then were able to use cunning legal rhetoric in negotiating land claims, such as by noting, "How can you say you have rights in New England when you can't even pronounce it?"

Otherwise, do as you will with it. SamuelRiv 10:58, 4 January 2009 (UTC)