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"Mary Malmros" wrote in message ... Vern93 writes: In article , Mary Malmros wrote: Awake, patriotic - er, Unitedstatesians! How's this for irony: there is no adjective in English describing people or things from the United States...but there is one in Spanish: estadounidense. Sure there is! "American" ...which includes people from the USA, Mexico, Chile, etc. Not according to non-Americans :-) |
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"Dave Harsant" wrote in message ... "Mary Malmros" wrote in message ... Vern93 writes: In article , Mary Malmros wrote: Awake, patriotic - er, Unitedstatesians! How's this for irony: there is no adjective in English describing people or things from the United States...but there is one in Spanish: estadounidense. Sure there is! "American" ...which includes people from the USA, Mexico, Chile, etc. "*North* Americans" would include: _Canadians_ _Americans_ _Mexicans_ |
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In message , bdubya
writes On 13 Jul 2003 21:40:36 -0400, Mary Malmros wrote: How's this for irony: there is no adjective in English describing people or things from the United States...but there is one in Spanish: estadounidense. En francais: "etats-unisien". It almost rhymes with "Tunisian". Merci tous les deux. Post spiked for future reference (or so I can say "I'm sure there's a word for that, I'm sure I kept a note, now where did I put it, I used to be able to remember things before I caught BSE... Er, what was I looking for?" -- Sue ];( |
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In news:Alex Heney typed:
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:34:37 -0600, "pigo" wrote: "Dave Harsant" wrote in message ... "Mary Malmros" wrote in message ... Vern93 writes: In article , Mary Malmros wrote: Awake, patriotic - er, Unitedstatesians! How's this for irony: there is no adjective in English describing people or things from the United States...but there is one in Spanish: estadounidense. Sure there is! "American" ...which includes people from the USA, Mexico, Chile, etc. "*North* Americans" would include: _Canadians_ _Americans_ _Mexicans_ Almost. And *South* Americans includes Brazilians, Peruvians, Chileans, etc. Americans includes both. Although many people, both inside and outside the US, do tend to use it to mean citizens of the USA only. As a Pedant and professional hair splitter, I cannot condone this. I agree with this post. ;-) -- Mike __________________________________________________ ______ Attempting to pass Mikey in the stats. ;-) |
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In news:Alex Heney typed:
On 14 Jul 2003 11:09:49 -0700, (Joe the Aroma) wrote: Mary Malmros wrote in message ... Sue writes: Awake, patriotic - er, Unitedstatesians! How's this for irony: there is no adjective in English describing people or things from the United States...but there is one in Spanish: estadounidense. Yes there is... American. And don't be retarded and say that that describes Mexicans and Canuckians... they don't live on America but on North America. Typical US megalomania :-) Not necessarily. American tends to be the default term for USians around the world. The fact that it also describes almost everyone in the western hemisphere is beside the point. America is often used as a shorter version of the United States of America as Brazil is for the Federative Republic of Brazil and so on. -- Mike __________________________________________________ ______ "Colorado Ski Country, USA" Come often, Ski hard, Spend *lots* of money, Then leave as quickly as you can. |
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 21:25:51 +0100, Alex Heney wrote:
On 14 Jul 2003 11:09:49 -0700, (Joe the Aroma) wrote: Mary Malmros wrote in message ... Sue writes: Awake, patriotic - er, Unitedstatesians! How's this for irony: there is no adjective in English describing people or things from the United States...but there is one in Spanish: estadounidense. Yes there is... American. And don't be retarded and say that that describes Mexicans and Canuckians... they don't live on America but on North America. Typical US megalomania :-) You might wanna watch yer lip there, neighbor; we're cookin' up a fresh batcha intel, and talk like that could land you on the "unlawful combatant" list..... ;-) bw |
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Dave Harsant wrote:
"Mary Malmros" wrote in message ... Vern93 writes: In article , Mary Malmros wrote: Awake, patriotic - er, Unitedstatesians! How's this for irony: there is no adjective in English describing people or things from the United States...but there is one in Spanish: estadounidense. Sure there is! "American" ...which includes people from the USA, Mexico, Chile, etc. Not according to non-Americans :-) That's their problem, WE know who we are. How about 'Yanks'? Much easier than "United States of Americans" to distinguish ourselves from "United States of Mexicans". -- Cheers, Bev ...so few snipers, so many politicians... |
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The Real Bev writes:
Dave Harsant wrote: "Mary Malmros" wrote in message ... Vern93 writes: In article , Mary Malmros wrote: Awake, patriotic - er, Unitedstatesians! How's this for irony: there is no adjective in English describing people or things from the United States...but there is one in Spanish: estadounidense. Sure there is! "American" ...which includes people from the USA, Mexico, Chile, etc. Not according to non-Americans :-) That's their problem, WE know who we are. How about 'Yanks'? Much easier than "United States of Americans" to distinguish ourselves from "United States of Mexicans". Oh yeah, go try and fly that lead balloon down in Georgia. FYI, the only people who are properly called "Yankees" are New Englanders, mostly of English ancestry, whose families have been continuously residing there for at least a couple hundred years. -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::: Mary Malmros Some days you're the windshield, Other days you're the bug. |
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Mary Malmros wrote:
The Real Bev writes: Dave Harsant wrote: "Mary Malmros" wrote: Vern93 writes: Mary Malmros wrote: Awake, patriotic - er, Unitedstatesians! How's this for irony: there is no adjective in English describing people or things from the United States...but there is one in Spanish: estadounidense. Sure there is! "American" ...which includes people from the USA, Mexico, Chile, etc. Not according to non-Americans :-) That's their problem, WE know who we are. How about 'Yanks'? Much easier than "United States of Americans" to distinguish ourselves from "United States of Mexicans". Oh yeah, go try and fly that lead balloon down in Georgia. FYI, the only people who are properly called "Yankees" are New Englanders, mostly of English ancestry, whose families have been continuously residing there for at least a couple hundred years. I thought the intent was to find a word that would work for non-Yanks, i.e., "foreigners," who would not be likely to care or perhaps even know about the Mason-Dixon line. When the phrase "YANKEE GO HOME" was popular, would southerners have been allowed to stay? -- Cheers, Bev ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Tell him that the government will give him lots of fish and he will vote for you forever. When he doesn't get any fish, blame the other guys." --A Taxpayer |
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