[NA-Discuss] UPDATE ON MAILCARD
Leah Symekher
lsymek at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 09:07:31 UTC 2017
My email was intended on correcting the acronym...U.S or U.S.A instead
of US.
Leah Symekher
On 1/16/17 7:42 PM, gbruen at knujon.com wrote:
>
> It's all relative. People from different parts of the world call us
> all Yankees. If you live in the U.S., Yankees are only people from the
> North. If you live in the North Yankees are a specific class of people
> descended from old English settlers. I live in Boston, and by my own
> perspective I am NOT a Yankee, but to people from other places I AM a
> Yankee. To muddy the waters further, "Yankee" was a Dutch insult for
> English settlers, but it is now a term of pride for some people (and
> an different insult to others).
>
> How about "Northern West-Hemispherians"?
>
>
>
>
> On 1/16/17 9:01 PM, Javier Rua wrote:
>> U.S.A. will do. "America" could be problematic, since it can be
>> criticized as a cultural appropriation of a geographic term which
>> describes two continents (and perhaps all the peoples of the New World).
>>
>> PS: Bit of a pet peeve of mine: in Spanish we can call people from
>> the USA "estadounidenses", which would literally translate to
>> "Unitedstatesians". I find "estadounidense" quite proper and
>> sufficiently descriptive. However, many of us still fall into the
>> pitfall of describing, particularly Anglophone "Unitedstatesians", as
>> "Americanos". (On a side note, a friend, Tim Unwin, is actually
>> encouraging everyone to call the people of the USA "USAns"
>> (pronounced you-ess-ns)).
>>
>> The only nation that would have standing to object the
>> "estadounidense" demonym is Mexico, since the official name of that
>> republic is United States of Mexico. But I don't think Mexicans would
>> like to be called "estadounidenses" (especially in the Trump age!).
>> This discussion is not irrelevant since -by definition- language
>> defines everything (pun intended). Take for example the historic
>> election of Francis as Pope (and note that I'm not religious person).
>> Everybody and the media celebrated him as the first "Latin American"
>> Pope. But Francis is much more than that: He is the First Pope from
>> the New World; the first non-European Pope; the First AMERICAN Pope;
>> period!!
>>
>> Javier Rúa-Jovet
>>
>> +1-787-396-6511
>> twitter: @javrua
>> skype: javier.rua1
>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/javrua
>>
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2017, at 9:19 PM, Leah Symekher <lsymek at gmail.com
>> <mailto:lsymek at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> this last draft with changes looks great. One little note, the US
>>> should be:
>>>
>>> United States of America (USA), commonly referred to as the United
>>> States ( U.S.) or America
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> Leah Symekher
>>>
>>> On 1/14/17 6:31 AM, Glenn McKnight wrote:
>>>> A special thanks to Joly on his comments
>>>> G
>>>>
>>>> Glenn McKnight
>>>> mcknight.glenn at gmail.com <mailto:mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>
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>>>> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Javier Rua <javrua at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:javrua at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks !!!
>>>>
>>>> Javier Rúa-Jovet
>>>>
>>>> +1-787-396-6511 <tel:%28787%29%20396-6511>
>>>> twitter: @javrua
>>>> skype: javier.rua1
>>>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/javrua
>>>> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/javrua>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 14, 2017, at 10:10 AM, Glenn McKnight
>>>> <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com <mailto:mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>> wrote:
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