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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: One for our side
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Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 18:42:47 EST
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>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
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