Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

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


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