> -----Mensaje original----- > De: thveillon.debian [mailto:thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com] > Enviado el: Jueves, 05 de Febrero de 2009 11:51 a.m. > Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Asunto: Re: OT: Bush quotes > > John Hasler a écrit : > > -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.) > Hi, > > In France we sometime refer to the United States of America > citizens as "Nord Américains" (Northern Americans ?), but > then we have all the Canadian and Inuit pissed... Maybe even > the polar bears ;-) > > At least with "froggies" thing are clear, no one else want > it, except maybe those green chewy legs owners, but they > don't dare to protest.
In Spanish-speaking America we don't call "Americans" americans. They simply are "estadounidenses" or norteamericanos. So, rest-of-the-world does not apply. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
