From: tony <tonygair@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: Waay OT - America
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 15:10:15 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2002-03-23T15:10:15+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C9C9B0D.194B6182@btinternet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a7gh01$9co$4@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de
Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>
> Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote:
>
> : Strangely enough, whenever I'm in Europe and people ask me where I'm
> : from, I say "I'm from the US."
>
> In the light of Preben's question as to which united states
> I should add that indeed there is some talk about the united
> states of Europe, in these or other words. So wrt my advice in
> another post to say "United States" I should probably add that
> the expression might profit from a pantomimically accompanied
> geographical indication :-) Ah, has it?
>
> It's true: America here (Europe, continent) is easily understood
> to mean USA; the US army was present in Europe after WW II, and
> they were named Americans, even in scientific books. This seems
> to have lasted.
>
> -- georg
Well whats everybody got to say the Israeli palestinian conflict then
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-22 6:48 Waay OT - America (was: Ada?) Christoph Grein
2002-03-22 12:37 ` Reinert Korsnes
2002-03-22 14:54 ` Ted Dennison
2002-03-22 15:44 ` Pat Rogers
2002-03-22 17:58 ` Preben Randhol
2002-03-22 18:10 ` Jim Rogers
2002-03-22 18:21 ` Pat Rogers
2002-03-22 18:18 ` Pat Rogers
2002-03-23 0:14 ` Waay OT - America Georg Bauhaus
2002-03-23 12:32 ` Preben Randhol
2002-03-25 9:03 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2002-03-25 10:17 ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-02 9:42 ` Frank
2002-03-26 0:53 ` Continentalizing the UK (still): Waay OT - America (was: Ada?) Kent Paul Dolan
2002-03-30 10:26 ` Philip Anderson
2002-04-02 19:53 ` Divide NOT? (sort of still): " Kent Paul Dolan
2002-04-03 1:09 ` Jim Rogers
2002-03-22 18:34 ` Darren New
2002-03-22 18:45 ` Preben Randhol
2002-03-22 23:57 ` Waay OT - America Georg Bauhaus
2002-03-23 1:55 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-03-22 19:24 ` Waay OT - America (was: Ada?) Larry Hazel
2002-03-22 23:56 ` Waay OT - America Georg Bauhaus
2002-03-23 0:30 ` Darren New
2002-03-23 0:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-03-23 15:10 ` tony [this message]
2002-03-23 15:16 ` Gary Scott
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2002-04-07 20:45 Pedro Menendez
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