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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Kevin & Cheryl Caldwell</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net">kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Idiomatica" 2008.06.18 (01) [E]<br></span><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Americans also use the terms "men's room", "ladies' room", and,
in schools, "boys' room" and "girls' room". Sometimes we call it the lavatory
(which technically is a place where you wash up, or even just a sink, but it
extends to the whole room). Then there are slang terms like john, can, pot,
and head, or children's slang like potty and toity. To me, a toilet is the
actual fixture (also called a commode), not the room it is in.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Ron, why are suddenly writing "US Americans"? I think most
people understand "Americans" to refer to people from the United States of <b>America</b>.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Kevin Caldwell</span></p></font><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: Names<br><br>Hi, Kevin!<br><br>The short answer: too many complaints.<br><br>Most of these complaints come from Latin Americans, and some Canadians have told me they dislike it also. The usual argument is that they are all Americans.<br>
<br>Some complain about "United States" without "of America" as well. There is another united states country: Mexico (<i>Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Mēxihcatl Tlacetilīlli Tlahtohcāyōtl</i>).<br><br>Many see this "name monopoly" as symptomatic of US American dominance, "arrogance" and the rest of it.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>Such voices of dissent are much more audible these days because of direct global communication and electronic international gatherings like ours. <br>
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">