Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] facism gaining ground in US

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>

    > Oh, and please stop using the term "USian" -- the term is "American", 
like it
    > or not.  

I will continue to use "USian".   America is the name of a continent.
The United States of America is the name of a country.

I think our siblings to the North and South have some really excellent
non-US but American perspectives to add to the world....


    > Using a pejorative term for your conversation partner (or at least
    > some of them) does _not_ help advance understanding, and makes you look
    > childish.

By "perjorative term" you mean "USian"?   Gosh.... i've long regarded
that as not perjorative -- just more precise.

-t