Albano wrote:
> USA (United States of...) is a country
> without a name, so they picked up the whole continent name as their name.
> That's
> something I hate about yankees. They think they ARE America. WRONG, WRONG
Purely grammatical. "United States" has no relational suffix (i.e., ending
meaning "belonging to"). It's awkward to say "United Statesian." It's long
to say "United States citizen." Hence, Americans. In the United States, the
word "Yankee" only means someone who is from the northeast, or, more
loosely, someone who *isn't* from the south.
You have (in English) "Argentinean," which is poetic ("argent" relates to
the metal, and color, silver) and mellifluous. What do we have? Nothing.
And by the way, we Americans from the USA have a simple classification
system that works well for us, and is perfectly in keeping with our
incorrigible alpha-dog mentality. Namely: we are Americans, and you are
South Americans.
And now, having offended nearly half of the hemisphere, I humbly and rather
speedily
<grin, duck, & run like hell>
Sincerely,
--"X"
("Who was that masked Xenophobe? And, wasn't that a Pentax around his
neck?")
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