Re: NEWS: MicroSoft's Spanish language problems

En réponse à Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>:

> > (Anybody remembering the discussion, perhaps a year
> > back, about whether the
> > use of "American" as the adjective going with the
> > USA was a good idea?
>
> I personally like the French coinage
> "états-unisien(ne)".  Unfortunately, a similar English
> coinage would have absolutely no flow.
>
I've never heard *"états-unisien". The French coinage is "états-unien(ne)". But
this term is clumsy at best, and nobody really uses it, or at least less than
the Spanish equivalent "estadounidense" (which I've heard quite often on
Spanish TV).

Christophe.

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