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"Americans" is more idiomatic. But - I bet NYU has_many Chilean, Canadian, Costa Rican grad students who would be annoyed at the implicit exclusion.
by crasshopper 16y ago
"Americans" is more idiomatic.
But - I bet NYU has_many Chilean, Canadian, Costa Rican grad students who would be annoyed at the implicit exclusion.
- davidw 16y agoBut the thing is titled "Getting to Know Americans", so why bother with an ugly sounding turn of words when you've already crossed that bridge? I didn't think that "US Americans" was even correct when I posted - it doesn't sound at all right to my ears. > Chilean, Canadian, Costa Rican grad students who would be annoyed at the implicit exclusion. Only the ones with a chip on their shoulder.
- crasshopper 16y agoI was about to lament that English lacks a short, euphonic, idiomatic word for "US-icans" / US citizens & residents / culturally US people / estadounidenses. But then I remembered we do have such a word. Yanks.
- davidw 16y ago"Yank" doesn't really work either, sorry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee#In_other_English-speaking_countries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee#In_other_English-speakin... You'll just have to live with the fact that English doesn't have a convenient word. Even here in Italy, "americano" is much more common than statunitense.
- mturmon 16y agoThe proportion of "US Americans" who would self-describe as a "Yank" must be vanishingly small. I think the first rule about names is that the named person should recognize the results.
- crasshopper 16y agoYou would think so, but Christ never thought of himself as Christ; Hindu is a name made up by outsiders; and Germany sounds nothing like Deutschland. Anyway I was just seeking compromise.
- rdouble 16y agoNobody says yanks besides australians. And they don't really do it that much.
- crasshopper 16y agoAussies + Brits say it.