Talk:Sherpa people

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[edit] Two meanings

Is it accurate to say that using the word to describe mountain guides is "incorrect," as the article states? I think it's truer that the term for the guides derived from the ethnic group, and that the word can mean either thing. Merriam-Webster notes both definitions. Any objections to my rewording this? --djrobgordon 19:12, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

I think you are right on -- everyone I talk to that has heard the word knows the "mountain guide" sense of the word, so in common usage it seems that sherpa has developed this meaning even if it originally didn't mean that. Dalijon 09:59, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree with both of you. But that was then. I have many Sherpa acquaintances, and there are times when they get offended by the term guide being synonymous to Sherpa.