From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,700e3c547aedfa54 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-23 07:16:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr15.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C9C9D08.9B700F6E@flash.net> From: Gary Scott Reply-To: scottg@flash.net Organization: Home X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-DIAL (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Waay OT - America References: <3C9B795A.A4828110@san.rr.com> <3C9C9B0D.194B6182@btinternet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.48.222.1 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr15.news.prodigy.com 1016896560 ST000 64.48.222.1 (Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:16:00 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:16:00 EST X-UserInfo1: OP]URYWGAZWS@UXXOZOTOQMAPJYREQLIQQ]ZMVMHQAVTUZ]CLNTCPFK[WDXDHV[K^FCGJCJLPF_D_NCC@FUG^Q\DINVAXSLIFXYJSSCCALP@PB@\OS@BITWAH\CQZKJMMD^SJA^NXA\GVLSRBD^M_NW_F[YLVTWIGAXAQBOATKBBQRXECDFDMQ\DZFUE@\JM Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 15:16:00 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21587 Date: 2002-03-23T15:16:00+00:00 List-Id: tony wrote: > > Georg Bauhaus wrote: > > > > Darren New 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 > ?????????????????????????????????????? I say that genetically speaking there's very little difference between Israelis, Palestinians, Irish, Germans, Chinese, Finnish, Icelanders...so why can't we all just get along. -- Gary Scott mailto:scottg@flash.net mailto:webmaster@fortranlib.com http://www.fortranlib.com Support the GNU Fortran G95 Project: http://g95.sourceforge.net