On May 24, 2016 12:45 PM, "Seeker" <seeker5528@comcast.net> wrote:
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> On 5/23/2016 12:50 PM, Nicolas George wrote:
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>> Le quintidi 5 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
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>>>> American? There are two continents. Do you mean the U.S.A? - the land of
>>>> the rooster and other euphemistic terms?
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>>> What becomes of Canada and Mexico in that scenario??
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>> A friend of mine suggested "United States of Puritania" for the demonymless
>> country between Canada and Mexico.
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> Maybe I'm just not creative enough.
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> If it was not a commonly accepted reference to the United States of America, there would
> be no "America".
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> You would have 'American continents' plural. You would have 'The Americas' plural.
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> I can't think of a usage that makes sense to collectively refer to people from two
> separate continents and a region of land that connects them as 'American'.
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> What am I missing?! ;)
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> Later, Seeker
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In Mexico and South America are called gringos no matter if they're US Citizens, Canadians or Europeans.
Now I'm gone.