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Yeah, Juan, juayever not?
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Here's a good one:
"Would you believe...?"
--Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Get Smart!
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An oldie but goodie I often use :
"I love it when a plan comes together!"
Col.Hannibal Smith on The A Team
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In our house the "Get Smart" line was "Sorry 'bout that, chief"
I said it to a First Nations friend too young to remember the show and got a very odd look.
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Jackie,
Read "Native Americans". Except we don't call them Native Americans, they would be Native Canadians if anything, so we go with "First Nations". It might be a bit YART-y, I can't recall.
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Native Canadians
Y'all aren't in America?
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Faldage, I know you're just teasing but...
(This is one of those prescriptive vs. descriptive things) In Canada, we don't use the word "American" unless we mean "relating to the country called the United States of America". I realize it is the name of the continent but no one here uses it that way. Therefore, continents aside, I am certainly NOT in America. I don't care that technically we are both on the continent called America (prescriptivist). It's just not used that way (descriptivist), so to both understand and be understood, one needs to know that.
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re:(This is one of those prescriptive vs. descriptive things) In Canada, we don't use the word "American" unless we mean "relating to the country called the United States of America". I realize it is the name of the continent but no one here uses it that way. Therefore, continents aside, I am certainly NOT in America. I don't care that technically we are both on the continent called America (prescriptivist). It's just not used that way (descriptivist), so to both understand and be understood, one needs to know that.
an other case of politics overriding geography..
but first settlers would do well for a term, since the first nation people are but immigrants from asia, and who were follows several hundred years latter by immigrants from europe (and dna evidence now indicated most of the european population also came from asia..) its really a just marking a cultural difference..
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re American - what Bean said.
but first settlers would do well for a term, since the first nation people are but immigrants from asia
Hence First Nations and not Aboriginal, they were the first to establish nations here. Besides it is the currently polite term altough, come to think of it, most of my First Nations friends call themselves Indian.
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