Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions
| From: | Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 22, 2001, 5:20 |
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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!!!
Adam Walker
>From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions
>Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:38:02 -0500
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>Frank George Valoczy wrote:
> > 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"...
>
>Now *I*'m offended. I'm no Yankee, I'm a Southerner! :-)
>
>--
>Cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon
>A nation without a language is a nation without a heart - Welsh proverb
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