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To: Paul Zastoupil <paulz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>, freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: "Americans" versus "United States"
From: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:13:51 -0700 (PDT) 
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> > plural=_("?plural:United States'")
> > 
> > ?
> 
> Probably a carry over from the US centric Civ and CivII.
> 
> /me grumbles something about arrogant americans from .us

No, it's just arrogant euros that aren't native English speakers think that
substituting "United States" for "American" will sound ok, when it doesn't.
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