[Freeciv-Dev] Re: "Americans" versus "United States"

[Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Thue wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 April 2001 02:13, Trent Piepho wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Do note my little "?". That is a question mark, exactly because I was not 
> sure if "United States" would sound right in practice. So I ask here on the 
> list.
> I tried inserting "United States" in various contexts used in freeciv, and it 
> sounded fine to me. Perhaps if you would give a counterexample instead of 
> just calling me arrogant.

I'm not that one that brought up arrogant first.  Arrogant euros and their
American bashing really piss me off.  Any instance where "United States" is
used as an adjective sounds incorrect.  You also need an article with "United
States".

> 
> (yes yes, I know that "'" shouldn't have been there).
> 
> -Thue
> 
>