[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>
>>>> skype  gmcknight
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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
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