| Paul Scott 2004-09-07, 3:36 am |
| On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:36:28 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon
<mmagallo@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 10:40:38PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>
>
> JFTR: I'm a citizen of Costa Rica, and I'm currently living there.
>
> And like I said before, "americano" and "norteamericano" used to refer
> to people from the USA is the influence of TV mostly. Shows produced
> in the USA use the word "american", which when translated becomes
> "americano". Historically mexicans have called the people of the USA
> "americanos", that's right, and that's more usual if you are talking
> about people in the north of Mexico.
I lived in Mexico 52 years ago before the influence of TV was that
common and referring to citizens of the USA (not sure about Canada) as
nortemericanos was already common then.
Paul Scott
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
|