Talk:Red Thunder Cloud

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[edit] impostor?

". . . if he spoke the language after all of the native speakers died out, and nobody else could do so, then SC can't see what's wrong with identifying him as the last speaker of the language prior to his death. If the author seriously means that only people who are genetically related to the original language group count as ‘speakers of a language’, then it's impossible to distinguish between speech and race. Given that SC has friends of a variety of races whose English is uniformly better than their command of their ancestral languages — many of which they have only learned in school — your host thinks that this opinion is ludicrous. Aside from legitimizing crude ethnic slurs (like insinuating that people of Asian ancestry can't keep their ls and rs straight), this implies that there is something false or inferior about people learning to speak a language that wasn't spoken in their home growing up. SC thinks this is patronizing and bigoted . . . ." [1] —Tamfang 00:19, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

He claimed to be a "the last native speaker", but he wasn't native thus the imposter category. 148.63.236.141 20:58, 20 December 2006 (UTC)