LL-L "Lexicon" 2005.10.20 (03) [E]

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20 October 2005 * Volume 03
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From: Heiko Evermann <heiko.evermann at gmx.de>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2005.10.19 (07) [E]

Hi Jonny,

> Well- the problem is: America is aspected as a continent, not any state or
> country. But, Ben, you're quite well in your question, because in Germany
> 'an American' always had been a 'Yankee' in a friendly sense, or perhaps 
> of
> Canadian origin.
To my knowledge, "Amerikaner" only refers to US, not to Canada in German. 
And
all south of USA are called "Lateinamerikaner". It is not really correct, 
but
that is the usual use.

> All of us often forget the fact that e.g Brazil today has more inhabitants
> than the U.S.(or doesn't it??), and, looking at the whole southern part of
> America, there live much more people than in U.S. and Canada summed.
Language is irrational. Besides: I do not like the pressure from others to
change language. I still call a screwdriver "Schraubenzieher" and not
"Schraubendreher". And to the usual attack "aber du ziehst damit keine
Schrauben, sondern drehst sie rein", I answer "und du, ziehst du deine
Schrauben fest oder drehst du sie fest". (One other of these nonsense
"neologisms": the official name for income tax is "Einkommensteuer" and not
the usual "Einkommensteuer". I just cannot get used to it. It sounds as 
wrong
to me as "Orangesaft" or "Weihnachtbaum" or "Weihnachtmann".)
>
> Sometimes I even fear US going to isolate themselves, because today I read
> there to be more than 54% of the population refuse to approve the 
> evolution
> theory basing on Darwin. It's a great example for independency but could 
> be
> suited to cause even more loneliness for the mightiest country of the 
> whole
> world, at the moment.
The more I know about Evolution, the less I believe it. Just recently I
watched a nice DVD about the origin of the layerings of sediments. Since 
then
I find it much, much more plausible to think that they had their origin in
the Great Flood. In other words: to me believing into evolution would 
require
a lot more faith from my side than just to believe in creation.

Hartlich Gröten,

Heiko 

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