[Ads-l] American

[Jonathan Lighter]

Currently on another website:

"Murder by USAian police."

https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=167976&messages=98

JL

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:26 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> Maybe you're thinking of "Borat."
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> JL
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> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
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> > Isn't Bharat an official, constitutional name of India, not the official,
> > constitutional name of India?
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> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
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> > > American Indian or East Indian?
> > >
> > > No, no, not the "East Indies." India.
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> > > Wikipedia informs me, however, that the official, Constitutional name
> of
> > > "India"  is Bharat.  Yet the Constitution  of India is written in
> English
> > > and says "India" in the very first line, according to Wikipedia.
> > >
> > > So go figure, if you know what I'm saying.
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> > > JL
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> > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Jonathan Lighter
> > > > <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > An American historically is a "Native American"
> > > >
> > > > Nevertheless, some dekkids ago, I was quite surprised and even
> > > > disappointed to discover that the Journal of _American_ Linguistics
> > > > had to do with *"Indian"* languages and not with the varieties of
> > > > English spoken in the United States.
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> > > > --
> > > > -Wilson
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> > > > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> > > > to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > > > -Mark Twain
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