Subject:
|
Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:24:16 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1872 times
|
| |
|
|
Richard Dee <richard.dee@virgin.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1231ab1ddc6c5094989737@lugnet.com...
> On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 01:18:12 GMT, Adam Howard uttered the following
> profundities...
>
> > Yanks? Dems fightin' words. Yankees live up north above Kentucky and
> > Virginia, Southerners live down south. And Westerners live on the other
> > coast. We've also got Texans, Mid-westerners, American Indians, Amish, • New
> <snip>
>
> "Yank" is the common, global reference to Americans. You should here the
> Strine rhyming slang for Americans, "Septic Tank." :o)
I know :( I wish we could change that, but it would take one heck of a lot
of re-education. But the insult remains the same. I don't think Japanese
would like it if everyone referred to them as Japs all the time, or British
as Brits, and I'm sure the Welsh, Irish, and Scottish hate being referred to
as Brits too. And then there are the Frenchies.
One thing that is confusing about America is we are actually a bunch of
separate 'countries' united under a common federal government (which has a
lot more power than the individual states (this was one reason we had a
Civil War- and Europe might be fighting a similar war in the future to
determine the same thing)). We don't mind being lumped together as
Americans, but labeling us by the name of one region is like calling Germans
Italians, or the British French, or Danes Spanish. Europe is just now
crossing this bridge with it's unification. Currently anyone living around
Europe is referred to as a European, but when we want to refer to a specific
'country/region' we refer to it correctly. I'm definitely sure that
Europeans would hate it if the rest of the world started labeling all of
them as Brits and just left it at that to refer to Everyone in the EU.
I wonder why we got labeled as Yanks? Was it the Civil War?
On another note- Anyone know how the word Yankee originated? (Sounds like
something the Indians would yell every time they saw settlers :)
Thanks,
Adam
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep
|
| (...) Goes back to the revolutionary war at least. A quick Altavista search turned up a couple possibilities: (URL) Frank Filz ---...--- Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com (25 years ago, 30-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep
|
| On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 01:18:12 GMT, Adam Howard uttered the following profundities... (...) <snip> "Yank" is the common, global reference to Americans. You should here the Strine rhyming slang for Americans, "Septic Tank." :o) (...) <snipped quote of (...) (25 years ago, 29-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
276 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
