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Originally Posted by Hitch
So...I admit, I've tried to adjust my phrasing, but it's quite true that if you've said "I'm American," for <mumble> years, it's hard to instantly stop saying that and insert "I'm from the US," instead. There's no good appellation for that, either, unlike "American." I'm a "Unity?" A "Stateswoman?" (Well...)...A "US-er?" (That just goes all kinda wrong places). Hmph.
Hitch
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Wow. Why should you adjust
your phrasing, from describing
yourself within
your own country with the appellation in general use? Who's being the rude and arrogant, uh, alien? *cough* Whatever happened to, "When in Rome"?
Seriously, if someone pulled that on me, my reaction would be along the lines of, "Go with that, honey, if it makes you happy and good luck with forcing a change on over 300 million of my countrymen. But you're opening yourself up to being misunderstood at a minimum as well as to the charge of being too dim to get that words can have different legitimate meanings, eh?"