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Hello And not fogetting there is a Cornish liberation front too. Cheers Rohhss Chapman Quoting Hazel Frost <[log in to unmask]>: > My problem is with the English not with the spanish, as in this > instance the spanish is more accurate than the English. In Spanish a > resident of the USA is an estadounidense, and a resident of the > Americas is an americano (with optional prefixes according to which bit > of the Americas). However in English, a resident of the Americas is an > American (with optional prefixes) while a resident of the USA is guess > what... another American. I'm guessing the best way around it is to > refer to a US resident as a "US resident" until such time as this > linguistic colonialism becomes resolved, which probably won't happen in > my life-time! Simon's point is also well made about "England" being > used to mean the whole of the UK, and it's not just the USA media that > do that, plenty of English people are guilty too, as my father > (Scottish) never tires of pointing out. > > Thanks to everyone for your responses. > Hazel > > > > On 30 Jul 2008, at 12:51, Lisa Greenman wrote: > >> Hello: I don't know if anyone else has had this reply, but I >> have often seen people living in the U.S. called "Estadounidense", >> and those in Canada "Canadense". This, of course, depends on which >> Spanish you have learned (I have heard this more when I was >> living in Central America than Mexico). Hope this helps, Lisa G >> >> >> >> >> ________________End of message________________ >> >> This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre >> for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds >> (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). >> Enquiries about list administration should be sent to >> [log in to unmask] >> >> Archives and tools are located at: >> www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html >> You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page. >> > > ________________End of message________________ > > This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for > Disability Studies at the University of Leeds > (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). > Enquiries about list administration should be sent to > [log in to unmask] > > Archives and tools are located at: > www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html > You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page. ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.