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To: Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Freeciv developers <freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: "Americans" versus "United States"
From: "Miguel Farah F." <miguel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:27:48 -0400 
 Reinier Post [25/04/2001 03:27] dijo/said:
>On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:17:06PM -0400, Miguel Farah F. wrote:
>
>>>[...]  Nobody uses the term American
>> >to mean people from the continents of North or South America.
>>
>> Sorry to contradict you, but the term "american" meaning "person from
>> the continent America" *IS* used.
>
>If it is used at all, we're talking about maybe 1 out of 10000 cases.
>The normal meaning of 'American' is '(person) from the United States'.
>This is true in English and in Dutch (for 'Amerikaan(s)').

Not in spanish. Specially in spanish-speaking American countries.


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