Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!myers From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: One for our side Message-ID: <1662@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 13:03:32 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1662 Posted: Wed Nov 6 13:03:32 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 20:51:01 EST References: <973@decwrl.UUCP> <12580@rochester.UUCP> <1587@uwmacc.UUCP> <1385@ihlpg.UUCP> <348@ubvax.UUCP> <1033@oddjob.UUCP> Organization: Ken Kopp's Fresh Seafood Tank Lines: 31 Let's keep this out of net.nlang, where our ramblings are no doubt not appreciated. > > 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 Yeah, but it would be `yanqui' or `yanki'. It certainly is a derogatory term (unless you happen to be a member of my favorite major league baseball team). But just like `cabron' or `gringo', it could be used in a playful sense among friends. This comment reminds me of a guy we met in Nicaragua at the Mercado Huembes, where we were all eating at a particular table. When the Nicaraguan became aware that we were estadounidenses, he asked ``The good kind, or the bad kind?'' There wasn't much we could say directly. This was the WORST display of hostility (and virtually the only one) toward me as a US citizen in two weeks there. -- Jeff Myers The views above may or may not University of Wisconsin-Madison reflect the views of any other Madison Academic Computing Center person or group at UW-Madison. ARPA: uwmacc!myers@rsch.wisc.edu UUCP: ..!{harvard,ucbvax,allegra,topaz,akgua,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!myers BitNet: MYERS at WISCMACC