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Originally Posted by issybird
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?"
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My personal opinion is if someone doesn't like the way I say or do something, that is their problem not mine.
Sorry was interrupted.
They can either get over it or live with it. I won't know the difference anyway.