Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 12:16:18PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>
> > Nor have I ever heard someone from Toronto call themselves
> > American--though the word "North America" certainly does apply. Of
> > course, oddly, Mexico is certainly part of North America, but in
> > Mexico "norteamericano" refers to people in the US and Canada only.
>
> FYI, we call the people from USA "estadounidenses". "Americano" and
> "norteamericano" are just the influence of TV. Since those words are
> too long, the shorter word we use to refer to your folk is "gringo",
> and since we don't know better, we end up calling Canadians and some
> Europeans "Gringos", too.
This may be what people in Chile say, but it isn't what I've ever
heard in Mexico.
> And by "we" I mean the people in Latin America. You do us the favor of
> calling us "latins" or "latinos". We just return the favor.
Actualy, I'd call you "Chilean".
> Given that I was born in America, specifically in Santiago, Chile, I'm
> as American as you are. Or do you wish to challenge the assertion that
> Germans are Europeans?
The English word American means two different things, and it is
ambiguous. It means "a person from the United States" and it means "a
person from the Americas". Context normally disambugates. What is
offensive is someone from France or Australia declaring that they will
tell us how we ought to sort it out.
Thomas
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