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Skriven 2008-07-17 18:40:39 av David Drummond (3:640/305)
  Kommentar till text 18688 av Jeff Smith (1:14/5)
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Jeff Smith -> David Drummond wrote:

 JS>>> USAmerican: Not Found

 DD>> Your dictionary isn't in USA is it? What term does it use for the
 DD>> collective peoples of the Americas?

 JS>      The ones that I checked referenced "North/Central/South America(n)"
 JS> when specifing one or more countries within a continent

What term does it use for the collective peoples of the Americas?

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 DD>> What term is used for the collective peoples of the Americas?
 DD>> [...]

 JS>      That is where the confusion gets injected. If you state that "He is
 JS> is from the Americas". The first thing that many/most will wonder is why
 JS> you just didn't state that "He was from America" or "He was from the US".
 JS> In speaking of a group of people from differant countries within a single
 JS> continent. A more accurate term to use would be to state that "They are
 JS> from North America. It specifies that you are meaning multiple countries
 JS> and not just one single country. The term America(n) has several possible
 JS> meanings. My point David is that the insistance that the term America
 JS> refers to ONLY a continent is not valid. That is clear and quite obvious
given
 JS> the term's widespread use around the world. As I have already stated. All
 JS> our yelling to the contrary will not change that.

What term do you use or the collective peoples of the Americas?
[...]

 DD>> To me an American is a "person from the Americas" - what term do you
 DD>> use for such peoples?

 JS>     If I were to refer to a person I would use the name of their country
 JS> to specify where they are from. If I am refering to several people from
 JS> multiple countries within the same continent I would specify the name of
 JS> the continent. I.E. North/South America(n).

What term would you use for the collective peoples of the Americas?
[...]
 JS>>> I would suspect not. You (Or at least seem to) need to make up
 JS>>> your own words and and are annoyed when others don't see your
 JS>>> point.

 DD>> I am not annoyed. I am refusing to kowtow to your bastardisation of
 DD>> the language.

 JS>      Whose language? Our english? Your english? My bastardisation is to
 JS> try to be as specific as possible and NOT try to contribute to the
 JS> confusion.

Confusion?

What term do you use for the collective peoples of the Americas?

This does seem to be a question you're finding very hard to answer....

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regards

David

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