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Oh come on
Oh come on
Posted Mar 11, 2005 2:14 UTC (Fri) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998)In reply to: Oh come on by vonbrand
Parent article: A big setback on software patents
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.
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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