-=> On 10-06-04  16:29,  Michiel Van Der Vlist <=-
 -=> spoke to Robert Couture about Usaian <=-

 MVDV> Not so. Some Z3 guys have used it too. Also the use of the 
 MVDV> word is not limited to Fidonet. Google for "USAIAN" and 
 MVDV> wonder.
 
  I did, and it backs up the statement that it is not an acceptable
  term.  From the first definition page I looked at:

There have been many attempts to coin an adjective-specifically, a
demonym-for United States nationals, as an alternative to American. The
various attempts include Usian (pronounced "YOU-zhuhn"; SAMPA: 'yuZ{at}n]),
Usanian, USAian, Usonian, Columbard, Fredonian, Frede, Unisan, United
Statesian, Colonican, Appalacian, Uessian, U-S-ian, Uesican, USAn, Usan,
Columbian, and Washingtonian. Mentions of these words have been around
since the early days of the United States, but all of the variants are
virtually unused and American remains the preferred term.

>

Use of these terms has been practiced and advocated by some non-American
people to distinguish U.S. nationals from people living in other
countries in the Americas. In practice, this is not usually necessary in
English because American without any modifier (like South American) is
well-understood to be a U.S. national and nobody else. In other
languages, notably Spanish, American is sometimes more ambiguous. The
concern on the part of advocates of these terms that motivates use of
the word is that, since America is part of the names of both North
America and South America, it follows in their logic that American ought
to be understood to mean, "inhabitant of the Americas".In the
Iberoamerican countries, the use of American term as US citizen could be
considered pollitically incorrect and culturally agressive.


Some people who deprecate use of "American" often do so as part of
criticism of the people or the government of the United States,
especially criticisms of US foreign policy towards the rest of the
Americas. Such criticism has focused on perceived or stated policies
such as Manifest Destiny and the Monroe Doctrine.

>

                        dale (at) min (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)


... Shipwrecked on Hesperus in Columbia, Maryland. 23:44:43, 06 Oct 2004
___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30

--- Maximus/NT 3.01