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echo: crossfire
to: ROY WITT
from: ALAN HESS
date: 2009-06-18 14:53:00
subject: `American` a misnomer

RW> TW>> To Almost the Whole World. Obviously you have never Googled
RW> TW>> Anti-Semitism.

RW>And this dumbass, like you, thinks one interpretation is gospel! When in
RW>fact, it is merely one amongst many presented by scholars around the
RW>world.

RW> MG> If *I* made up a word or phrase it would always mean what *I* the
RW> MG> creator of it meant by it.

RW>Now that's an intelegent statement. When you release such a word to the
RW>masses, you will no longer have control over it's meaning. Just like this
RW>one.

I don't see citizens of the U.S. or elsewhere complain that being called
"Americans" is a misnomer.  After all, just as Jews aren't the only
Semites, USAans aren't the only people who live in America (there are
people in North, Central, and South America, all of whom are Americans,
but when anyone says "American," people know the word refers to people
in the United States, and "America" means the United States, just as
"anti-Semite" means anti-Jew.  It seems "anti-Semite" is the only
not-totally accurate term with which a few folks take issue.

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