Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: One for our side Message-ID: <1726@dciem.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 18:42:47 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1726 Posted: Tue Nov 12 18:42:47 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 22:06:55 EST References: <973@decwrl.UUCP> <12580@rochester.UUCP> <1587@uwmacc.UUCP> <1385@ihlpg.UUCP> <1609@uwmacc.UUCP> <12789@rochester.UUCP> Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 24 Summary: >Jeff, can you imagine for a second what it would have sounded like in WW 2 >when the French people said of the Normandy invasion: "The U S citizens are >coming!!"? Somehow "The Americans are coming" sounds more like an invasion >by soldiers than an invasion by private citizens. > Somehow, I think they might have been more likely to say "The Allies are coming." This response illustrates EXACTLY the kind of Yank thinking that Jeff originally sounded off about. Of course the Yanks won the war. There weren't any Brits or Canucks or Aussies or Ghurkas or whatever -- just "Americans". Wonderful! And to whoever said there isn't an English word to describe US citizens, note that the English is "Yank", a word which may not occur in the US version of the language, but has 1/4 as many syllables as the moderately offensive "American." (Yes, I know, "Yank" can be confused with "Yankee" which refers to only a few of you, but then English has lots of even more confusable word-pairs, so that shouldn't matter.) -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt