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Oh come on
Oh come on
Posted Mar 10, 2005 11:15 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)In reply to: Oh come on by grantingram
Parent article: A big setback on software patents
No, I don't like the way US citizens call themselves "americans", with the understanding that they are the only ones (Canadians, mexicans, and a host of citizens of other countries are americans too, you know).
No, I don't like the way the US considers that the world somehow ends at its borders.
I could go on... your point being?
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Oh come on
Posted Mar 11, 2005 2:14 UTC (Fri) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link]
Everyone in the world calls people from the US Americans. It's really not surprising, considering they are from the United States of America. If you want to talk about North Americans, or South Americans, that's unambiguous, but where's this pressing need to talk about all the people from the northern tip of Nunavut to the southern tip of Argentina?
It seems more a topic for people to bitch about than an actual problem.
USofA's southern neighbours
Posted Mar 11, 2005 21:31 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
(Mexicans) and a lot of other Spanish-speaking people (more than theEnglish-speaking people IIRC) call them "Estadunidenses" (something like
"Unitedstateans".
Me? I call them USofAns. :-P