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Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

From:Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Friday, March 23, 2001, 7:01
Frank George Valoczy wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Adam Walker wrote: > >> Me too! There is one and ONLY one acceptable self-designation for citizens >> of the United States of AMERICA, and that is American. You may call us >> whatever you wish when speaking of us in French or German or Swahili or >> Russian or Spanish, but when speaking to us in English PLEASE have the >> courtesy to call us by our self-designation!!! Call me an estadoeunidienso >> (or whatever) in Spanish if you so desire (We call no one by their >> self-designations either.), but when speaking English call me an American. >> How incredibly arrogant to try to force another people to change their name >> for themselves!!! > > > But, is it not true, that living on the American continent, makes also > Canadians, Mexicans, Argentinians and the rest, also "American"?
The things is, though, that there is no such thing as this so-called 'American continent'. There is North America and South America. I've always called people from the USA as one of Americans, Bloody Bastards, Usarians (from my pronunciation of {USA}+ians), Yewessians (from my pronunciation of U+S+ians), or somesuch like that (The latter two only when I wanted to make it bloody obvious to all that I was talking about Yewessians, not Canadans or Brazillians or Mexicans, or somesuch like that. Tristan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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