Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site oddjob.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!oddjob!sra From: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.nlang Subject: Re: One for our side Message-ID: <1033@oddjob.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 00:06:27 EST Article-I.D.: oddjob.1033 Posted: Tue Nov 5 00:06:27 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 17:53:24 EST References: <973@decwrl.UUCP> <12580@rochester.UUCP> <1587@uwmacc.UUCP> <1385@ihlpg.UUCP> <348@ubvax.UUCP> Reply-To: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson) Organization: University of Chicago, Department of Physics Lines: 14 Xref: lsuc net.politics:1833 net.nlang:1402 Summary: In article <1385@ihlpg.UUCP> tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum) writes: >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. Anyone from Latin America will tell you an inhabitant of the US is a yankee. And you better believe, that's an insult! -- Scott Anderson ihnp4!oddjob!kaos!sra