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From: tony <tonygair@btinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: Waay OT - America
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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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