[NA-Discuss] UPDATE ON MAILCARD
Louis Houle
louis.houle at oricom.ca
Thu Jan 26 18:22:25 UTC 2017
American Pope! Yes but his parents speak Italian. The Italian root is
not too far... (-;)
Louis Houle
Président honoraire
ISOC Québec
Louis.Houle at isoc.quebec
Le 2017-01-16 à 21:01, Javier Rua a écrit :
> 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
>
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>
> 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
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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
>>>
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>>> twitter: @javrua
>>> skype: javier.rua1
>>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/javrua
>>> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/javrua>
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>>>
>>> On Jan 14, 2017, at 10:10 AM, Glenn McKnight
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