Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 23, 2001, 19:54 |
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> > But, is it not true, that living on the American continent, makes also
> > Canadians, Mexicans, Argentinians and the rest, also "American"?
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> 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.
In elementary school I was taught that there are five continents: Europe,
Africa, Asia, America and Australia...
-------ferko
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