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Old 07-11-2005, 08:02 PM   #1
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Ah but they might be the last of "x" for all we know.
"x" might have been preceded too.

Right. by the last "w" Americans.
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Old 07-12-2005, 11:49 AM   #2
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the first "x" americans didn't even know they were americans!
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Old 07-12-2005, 02:26 PM   #3
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So...38,000 years ago, inhabitants of what is now Puebla, Mexico were Americans, but today, folks living there are...Mexicans? I am so confused.
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Old 07-12-2005, 03:19 PM   #4
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They're still Americans. North America is a big continent. So's South America.

We've just appropriated the name for ourselves.
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Old 08-06-2005, 01:50 AM   #5
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We've just appropriated the name for ourselves.
Which we pretty much have to: "United-Statesian" sounds far clumsier to the Anglophone ear than, say, the Spanish equivalent, which does manage to flow in a language that more rattles than flows, at least in most places outside of Mexico -- the other "United States" in North America. And Mexico came later to that name in any case, so somebody who alleges this is yet more Yanquí arrogance needs to go right back to escuela.
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