Re: CHAT: the gay Canadian (was: "have a nice day")

And Rosta wrote:
> "Gay French" doesn't sound good.
I'd use "Gay Frenchman", most national adjectives sound horrible to me
when used as singular nouns, "a Japanese", "a Chinese", "a Spanish"
sounds aweful, I'd say "a Japanese person", "a Chinese person", "a
Spaniard".  However, "a Mexican" or "an Italian" both sound okay.  I
think that nousn with -ish/-ese/-ic (and perhaps others) for me can't be
used as singular nouns.  As collectives, like "the Hundred Years' War
was between the French and the English" are perfectly acceptable,
however.