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 _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
