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Language - ... New York Yankees speak at an incredibly fast pace, and get to the point quickly. ... ...>Due
to mass TV indoctrination, Aussies will understand USns just fine.. ...
http://www.uq.net.au/~zzdonsi/language.html
Faldage is copied in far places.
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Personally, I find USn to be ghastly.
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So come up with something better.
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USn is a useful distinction because apparently some Europeans use "Americans" to mean anyone who lives on the continent of North America. This is, of course, strictly true but in Canada American can only mean someone from the US. Therefore, if I use USn in a post it is clear I am talking about someone from the US, whereas I now know that if I write of an American the meaning is vague to someone from Europe, and probably doesn't have the specific meaning I intend it to. (This is something I didn't know before joining the Board.)
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And even half the New-Yorkers
"My favorite teams? The Mets and whoever's playing the Yankees!"
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Vika is not a Scot; she is Byelorussian true. but I'd like to be a Honorary Scot (like a honorary citizen) so i was pleased to hear it 
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"My favorite teams? The Mets and whoever's playing the Yankees!"not likely to be the Cubs, is it?Just Yankin' your chain! 
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Cubs
I was quoting, Juan.
BTW, the "yankee" etymology hunt is coming along just fine. My favorite is that it's an acronym; Yet Another Not Known Egregious Etymology.
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I was quoting, Juan.Ah, yes...the fine art of selective quoting. "Let's play two!" --Ernie Banks, Chicago Cubs Hall-of-Famer (for the basebally challenged among us)
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Just to drop my two-penno'th into the fountain:
During the war (2nd World/Great Patriotic anything save WWII [ugh]) the term "Yank" or "Yankee" was used all the time purely as a slang term for someone from the USA. There were no specific connotations to it and the term would be used just as much if we were praising your great nation or abusing it.
(This was, of course, in total ignorance that it was a term only appplicable to those ffrom the Union, rather than from the Confedracy. "Gone with the Wind" was probably the first step in our education on such matters!)
In those days, we could also refer to someone from north of the English border as a "Jock" and someone from west of the ditto as a "Taff" without rousing any ire. It is only over recent years that these words have been seen over here to hold any sort of pejorative connotation. Just about everyone had some sort of nick-name, and you only felt insulted if your friends and work-mates didn't care enough about you to invent one for you.
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