Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/05/2009 08:44 AM, consultores1 wrote: > [snip] >> >> Are you refering to Unitedstatesdians? because i am from El Salvador and >> without any dude i am American. > > The oldest nation[0] in the region gets to pick it's name and > abbreviation. That would be "us".
Nonsense. Names are not picked, names are given. The first person to discover a new species, area, star, whatever has the right to name it. (The reason we don't use the ancient name for the continent is that is not in one of the European languages that are dominating the continent now, in particular it is not an English name. ) There may be different names for countries: Germany is called 'Deutschland' in German, 'Germany' in English, 'Allemagne' in French, 'Tyskland' in Danish, 'Germania' in Italian (although the inhabitants are called 'tedeschi'), 'Niemcy' in Polish, Německo in Czech, just to pick a few from the countries around us. Just imagine if there was a referendum and the German people decided, that in order to stop this confusion, their state should internationally be known as 'United states of Europe'. Very fortunately, no one in Germany would be so arrogant as to suggest such a thing. I don't know, why the US's founding fathers did not pick a more appropriate name. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
