On 26 Jul 2010 07:16:09 -0700, [email protected] (Bill Fairchild) wrote: >"United Statesian" is more than merely a perfect sense-maker. It is the >literal translation into English >from the Spanish word "estadounidense", which means someone from the United >States of America. >Many hispanophones find estadounidense preferable to norteamericano, which >means anyone from >North America, which includes all nations from the Arctic Ocean to Panama, >Greenland, Bermuda, >and the various Caribbean islands.
It never made any sense to me when I lived in Mexico City during the Kennedy administration that they "corrected" me to say I wasn't an American, I was a North American. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
