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.