On Sun, 2015-03-15 at 06:57 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Actually, most of the people who call themselves American use
the
> dd/mm/yy format. I refer to every other country in the Americas
apart
> from the US.
Pedantic much? :-) :-)
Well if we can't be pedantic, what's the point :-)
In the spirit of being "pedantic" I will point out that I
first used
quotes around "American" to indicate it wasn't related to the entire
continent of North American or South American. And, incidentally,
most folks know that Canadians, Mexicans, and people living in
countries other than the USA don't commonly refer to themselves as
Americans.
It depends on context. I lived in South America for over 30 years and I
can assure you that whenever people saw a movie, TV show, political
speech or whatever from the US in which "American" was used in the sense
of nationality (which is close to 100% of the time), many people would
react negatively, essentially saying "we're American too". And I don't
mean hot-headed radicals but ordinary people without strong political
leanings.
However this is now getting OT.
poc