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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: One for our side
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 12:58:24 EST
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> Very little pisses me off more than the mindless anti-Americanism
> (excuse me, anti-Unitedstatesism) of jeff m.  Has it occurred to him that
> there is no word in the English language for inhabitant of the United States
> other than American.  I can understand how Latin Americans and Canadians
> might not like this, but it is a fact.  I'll be damned if I'm going to
> call myself a Unitedstatesian (ugh!).  It is unfortunate that the same
> word, American, has more than one meaning, but it takes someone like jeff m.
> to convert this into a sign of US hegemony over the West.  Spare us.
> -- 
> Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan

Sure, it's occured to me.  In English I refer to myself as a US citizen,
which has one more syllable than ``American.''  As I mentioned in my previous,
less thought-out note, there are alot more people than just me who stress
this sign of hegemony (a hegemony which is very real, and has more to do
with guns than words).

I have very few original ideas, being addicted to eclecticism.  Many others
have very few original ideas because they are addicted to dogmatism.

Cheers, Jeffrey D. Myers