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. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
