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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham 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: 2002-03-22 16:07:30 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!194.8.194.95!news.netcologne.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Waay OT - America Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 00:07:29 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <3C9B795A.A4828110@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1016842049 9624 134.91.4.34 (23 Mar 2002 00:07:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 00:07:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21561 Date: 2002-03-23T00:07:29+00:00 List-Id: 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