Just what's so wrong with accuracy in language, or accuracy in geography? The word "American" is not being "banned"; the UofNH is just suggesting that it not be used to mean what it clearly does NOT mean.
I'm pretty sure people like you and Faux News would strongly object if Canadians, or Mexicans, or Brazilians insisted on calling themselves "Americans".
People who are wrong are just as sure they're right as people who are right. The only difference is, they're wrong.
— God@The Tweet of God
I'm pretty sure people like you and Faux News would strongly object if Canadians, or Mexicans, or Brazilians insisted on calling themselves "Americans".
Also there will be no more claims to actually be Spartacus.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Ummm, you better not be laughing too loudly, Mister USasian (or however you spell it). You've been making the same point now for how long???
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
Guinevere wrote:Ummm, you better not be laughing too loudly, Mister USasian (or however you spell it). You've been making the same point now for how long???
USian... it's so much less cumbersome than "U.S. citizen". And I thought the presentation of the news story was ridiculously biased. The suggestion to avoid using "American" when one means specifically citizens of the USA is quite OK and does not in the least suggest that to use "American" is offensive.
Also the stupid newsperson comment at the end about "including everyone" is of course the exact opposite of the point being made by the University's style guide.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Much like the bullshit manufactured story about how Hitler was motivated by Catholicism...
Is that what I wrote? Please copy the statement in question.
I believe I actually said that murderous anti-semitism was created and promoted by the christian church for 1,000 years before Hitler and he merely used it for his own purposes. Drunk already? You and Meade both?
So you cannot prove they said it was offensive, can you?
Guinevere wrote:Ummm, you better not be laughing too loudly, Mister USasian (or however you spell it). You've been making the same point now for how long???
USian... it's so much less cumbersome than "U.S. citizen". And I thought the presentation of the news story was ridiculously biased. The suggestion to avoid using "American" when one means specifically citizens of the USA is quite OK and does not in the least suggest that to use "American" is offensive.
Also the stupid newsperson comment at the end about "including everyone" is of course the exact opposite of the point being made by the University's style guide.
Have you read the style guide? Where can I find a copy online?
Actually, I do win. No one has posted a direct reference to the style guide in question and I cannot find it online but in a different reference they say that the use of the word "American" is "problematic" not "offensive" so that was a typical right-wing lie.
The word is problematic if you are writing for a wider audience because to the rest of the world "American" means the inhabitants of North and South America which, shockingly to us, includes Canadians and Bolivians. The rest of the world calls us "the United States" refers to the inhabitants of same as "the people of the United States" and those with the glory of citizenship are "Citizens of the United States". It is a matter of clarity and if you are writing and wish to be understood it is worth paying attention to such details.
The anti-intellectualism of the Right is a curse on both them and us.
USian... it's so much less cumbersome than "U.S. citizen". And I thought the presentation of the news story was ridiculously biased. The suggestion to avoid using "American" when one means specifically citizens of the USA is quite OK and does not in the least suggest that to use "American" is offensive.
Also the stupid newsperson comment at the end about "including everyone" is of course the exact opposite of the point being made by the University's style guide.
rubato - you did understand that I'm agreeing with Econoline and with you that the TV report is slanted rubbish?
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Just what's so wrong with accuracy in language, or accuracy in geography? The word "American" is not being "banned"; the UofNH is just suggesting that it not be used to mean what it clearly does NOT mean. 
