Re: NEWS: MicroSoft's Spanish language problems
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 16:26 |
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:28:56PM -0700, Padraic Brown wrote:
> A black man
> moves here (to the US) from Senegal and is called
> "African-American".
This is not my usage: I would refer to such a person as simply an "African".
> [T]hey call me by a colour
> (white) my skin will never really attain.
Unless you drown.
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