Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 22, 2001, 20:26 |
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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"?
Just curious...also this thread is interesting for me as there are most
certainly "proper" and "insulting" terms for the various nationalities of
the Balkans in Dalmatica.
-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy
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