On Thu February 5 2009 09:58:39 Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Thursday 05 February 2009, John Hasler wrote: > > -c writes: > > > If other (non-USian) residents of the greater "Americas" take > > > offense at us referring to ourselves as Americans, I'm happy to > > > attempt to get this right (and even support the effort to attempt > > > to educate my fellow USians). > > > > Please try to come up with something less idiotic than "USian". > > That's about as likely to catch on as "EUian". > > > > (Not that it matters: the rest of the world will go on calling > > residents of the United States of America "Americans" no matter what > > we say.) -- > > Frank Lloyd Wright had a term for the family houses he designed that fit > more in the middle class than wealthy. He called them Usonian homes. > Perhaps Usonian?
Common soldiers and sailors solved this problem long ago. Yanks, frogs, aussies, canucks, poms, krauts, ... --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
