Re: Beating the Dutch
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 26, 2002, 18:57 |
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John Cowan wrote:
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>I also meant, but forgot, to praise Andreas (I think it was) for
>introducing the word "Dutchistan" to our vocabulary. It is so perfectly
>inelegant as to be quite elegant in its multicultural way.
Perfectly inelegant? Oh my ...
I guess I just like the "-(i/e)stan" suffix, and usually feel free to attach
it to pretty much any ethnoym. "Americanistan" is not the most infrequent
word in my vocabulary.
Andreas
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