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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (578)	9/6/2002 2:24:46 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1293

I pledge allegiance to this language of english, and to the communication for which it stands, one tongue under the Oxford Unabridged, with adjectives and appellations for all. You shall not sway me in this, sir .... language is a living thing, it grows and mutates and loses appendages in the gears of time, change is just the way things are as far as words are concerned, well sometimes we must be vigilant when our language gets cancer, cut it out, cast it away from us, lest it twist the minds of our young For some reason canadians have never realised the import of the use of 'american' as adjective for but a single nation of these Américas, many here use it without thinking, they've heard it used that way, so they repeat it ... buncha parrots, time they learned a thing or two .... now the hispanos have always known, and those who have read Vasconcelos know with a fine point on it, that this preemption of the name of two continents by one country is a vivid expression of the arrogance with which the ruling elite of that country has long been infested .... hispanos know themselves to be the majority here - more have spanish as a mother tongue in these As than english, by far [another factoid surprising to some perhaps - a majority here in these As speak english, that is also true ... it is a second language for many though] .... and in spanish, the word americanismo refers to a usage of a word or term specific to these As ... and of course there are subsets, terms specific to an area or country ... here is a dictionary of mexicanismos - academia.org.mx ... they are one class of a wider group, they are americano, which means in english 'of or pertaining to the Américas' Yes, 'norteamericano' ..... it's not long now since mexicanos began to admit they fell in this class ... a very short time ago the term referred strictly to US nationals, it was considered equivalent to estadounidenses, 'unitedstaters' that would be .... one time i was being presented to a sizable meeting, this was only ten years ago or so, one man introduced me as a resident norteamericano, and somebody else piped up to correct him and said, no no he is not, he lives in Canadá, it is far north, near Russia But they all knew at that meeting, that they were americanos ... just like the chilenos, the newfies, the alaskans, the brasileños And yes, any 'bill' purporting to determine the future for canadians without being written and voted on by canadians would be phoney ..... imagine if nigerians presumed to determine yours