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  • OT?: All things American

    From jillery@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 11 10:42:37 2023
    From time to time, some troll has posted to T.O. some inane claim
    about U.S. and/or USians. As counterpoint, the following is a link to
    a 12-minute Youtube video of how some Europeans use "American" as an
    adjective:

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVA1C8kUw4I>

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?w5bDtiBUaWli?=@21:1/5 to jillery on Tue Apr 11 09:33:47 2023
    On Tuesday, 11 April 2023 at 17:45:17 UTC+3, jillery wrote:
    From time to time, some troll has posted to T.O. some inane claim
    about U.S. and/or USians. As counterpoint, the following is a link to
    a 12-minute Youtube video of how some Europeans use "American" as an adjective:

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVA1C8kUw4I>


    It differs by country. In Estonia we do not have bread, coffin, fridge or
    bed that is called "American". Overly wide car or smile and odd football
    that is not really ball and is rarely hit with foot we call "American" as well. Roller coaster we call "American hills". Sliced potatoes baked with with
    bell pepper, onion and/or garlic (or seasoned with powder of such) we call "cowboy potatoes" not "American potatoes".

    Lot of bird species that mostly live in America have "American" in name
    here. Those very rarely migrate here by some mistake but perhaps enough
    to have name.

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  • From Pancho Sanza@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 11 20:10:38 2023
    Gisulat ni jillery:

    From time to time, some troll has posted to T.O. some inane claim
    about U.S. and/or USians. As counterpoint, the following is a link to
    a 12-minute Youtube video of how some Europeans use "American" as an >adjective:

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVA1C8kUw4I>

    It's easy. When it's unnecessary XXXXtra large (fridges, cars, Dr Now
    patients) it's American. When it's unhealthy (Fast/Junk food) it's
    American. When it's fake (snowy white smiles, cordiality) it's American.
    When it's infantile and silly (sit coms) it's American. When it's
    wielding fire arms it's American. When it doesn't know where Germany,
    India or any other country other than the USA is situated on the globe
    it's American. When it drives around in a pickup truck with a gun rack,
    has a red neck and eats loads of steak it's American. When its has spent
    too much money on cosmetic surgery and it shows it's American.

    Just a few simple examples of typically American culturalisms.

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  • From jillery@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 12 04:33:10 2023
    On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:33:47 -0700 (PDT), Öö Tiib <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Tuesday, 11 April 2023 at 17:45:17 UTC+3, jillery wrote:
    From time to time, some troll has posted to T.O. some inane claim
    about U.S. and/or USians. As counterpoint, the following is a link to
    a 12-minute Youtube video of how some Europeans use "American" as an
    adjective:

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVA1C8kUw4I>


    It differs by country. In Estonia we do not have bread, coffin, fridge or
    bed that is called "American". Overly wide car or smile and odd football
    that is not really ball and is rarely hit with foot we call "American" as well.
    Roller coaster we call "American hills". Sliced potatoes baked with with >bell pepper, onion and/or garlic (or seasoned with powder of such) we call >"cowboy potatoes" not "American potatoes".

    Lot of bird species that mostly live in America have "American" in name
    here. Those very rarely migrate here by some mistake but perhaps enough
    to have name.


    Perhaps not enough frequent flyer miles.

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