Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, David Stokes wrote:

> Frank George Valoczy wrote:
> >
> > > As a fair number of the people who know me would guess I'd mention: NOT
> > > ALL ENGLISH SPEAKERS ARE AMERICAN. And I don't care whether or not you
> > > meant to say that, or even imply that. I don't like it when people make
> > > it way to easy for me to inferr it.
> > > Apologies for the anger...
> >
> > Sorry mate, I'm I canucklehead and I usually get irked about that too when
> > people especially in Eastern Europe call Canada America...
> >
>
> But Canada is part of America, the continent that is.
That way yes...

>
> What bugs me is when people use "America" to refer to the "United
> States". Probably my geology education causing me to think in terms of
> land masses and not countries. But it looks like I'm fighting a losing
> battle on this one, since its in common use and there's not much I can
> do about it. :)
>
Actually, when I remember to do so, I will write "USAmerica"...but I
rarely remember; usually I just say, "the States" or "US"...


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Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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