Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 23, 2001, 23:23 |
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In a message dated 3/23/01 2:25:43 PM, robert@APEXWOOD.COM writes:
<< You've got three good words in the name of your country (if we ignore
"of", that is) that you can use, and the other two wouldn't cause as
much trouble as "American", so there are other terms available. I agree
that it's not deliberatly arrogant. I don't think the people who came up
with the term said "How many people can we piss off today?" - but to
outsiders, especially American outsiders (the real Americans) it seems
especially arrogant. >>
I'm sorry, you just have no basis. This should really stop. Someone already
said there's a "United States of Mexico", because there is. So, again, we
can't use either "United" or "States" or "of", for that matter. It remains
that "American" refers to people in the U.S., "Southern American" is for
people from the South, "South American" is for anyone from South America
(though who on Earth would prefer to be called "South American" as opposed to
the country they're from?), and if you've got a problem with it, it's your
problem.
-Jenesis
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