RE: OT: Bush quotes
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: thveillon.debian [mailto:thveillon.debian@googlemail.com]
> Enviado el: Jueves, 05 de Febrero de 2009 11:51 a.m.
> Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Asunto: Re: OT: Bush quotes
>
> John Hasler a écrit :
> > -c writes:
> >> If other (non-USian) residents of the greater "Americas"
> take offense
> >> at us referring to ourselves as Americans, I'm happy to attempt to
> >> get this right (and even support the effort to attempt to
> educate my
> >> fellow USians).
> >
> > Please try to come up with something less idiotic than "USian".
> > That's about as likely to catch on as "EUian".
> >
> > (Not that it matters: the rest of the world will go on calling
> > residents of the United States of America "Americans" no
> matter what
> > we say.)
> Hi,
>
> In France we sometime refer to the United States of America
> citizens as "Nord Américains" (Northern Americans ?), but
> then we have all the Canadian and Inuit pissed... Maybe even
> the polar bears ;-)
>
> At least with "froggies" thing are clear, no one else want
> it, except maybe those green chewy legs owners, but they
> don't dare to protest.
In Spanish-speaking America we don't call "Americans" americans. They simply
are "estadounidenses" or norteamericanos. So, rest-of-the-world does not
apply.
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