Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 21, 2001, 20:06 |
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Andrew D Chaney wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 20, 2001, at 04:29 PM, Frank George Valoczy wrote:
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> > >
> > > I like "Usonians", based on the Esperanto name of the U.S.A.
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> > Hm...perhaps this may not be the most tactful thing, but a great deal of
> > the world already has a word for USAmericans, namely "Yankee"...
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> Only US Citizens from north of I-10 are Yankees.
>
Maybe to you who live in the States, but the rest of the world, especially
it seems in places where the US is not quite on the peak of the popularity
list, applies that name to all of you...
Perhaps it might be best to call you, Texans, Dakotans etc.?
-------ferko
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