Well, as Hal pointed out, Bowering was the first (to my knowledge
anyway) to use USAmerican, rather than American, to simply state a fact
about US citizens; speaking as another 'American,' living as he does in
Canada, a part of the Americas.
Seems useful enough to me...
And certainly isn't a term of abuse (or not necessarily <g>).
Doug
On 10-Sep-07, at 9:58 AM, Peter Cudmore wrote:
> The thing is not to find convenient terms of abuse, but simply a
> precise yet
> concise way of speaking. 'American' fits the bill for concision, but
> not for
> precision.
>
> How does Bowering deal with this?
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