Re: OT: Bush quotes
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 05:50:41PM +0000, thveillon.debian wrote:
> John Hasler a ?crit :
> > -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.)
>
> In France we sometime refer to the United States of America citizens as
> "Nord Am?ricains" (Northern Americans ?), but then we have all the
> Canadian and Inuit pissed... Maybe even the polar bears ;-)
Canadians sometimes call our southern neighbours "Amereecans" :)
When they re-elected Bush, the majority were considered just idiots.
Doug.
Reply to: