On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 14:40 -0400, Chad Smith wrote: > Personally, i couldn't care less what Daniel or anyone else wants to > call themselves. He could call himself Marco Polo for all I care - > that doesn't make him an explorer.
Neither does it make you right. > The whole discussion started with Daniel saying Americans (from the > US) shouldn't be called or call themselves Americans. Daniel proposed > changing what I am called. That I am completely against. I am an > American. I am a citizen of the United States of America. Both true, but the latter is more precise than the former just as to call me English is more precise than to call me British or European. Seemed to me it was the exclusivity of the use of the term American to the USA that he had a problem with. > No one has the right to change *MY* title. Not even the god of > OpenOffice.org or whatever Daniel thinks he is. <Snigger> Looks more like Che Guvara to me than God. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL
