Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Americans?
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:46:02 -0700
 
Paul Chefurka wrote:
> 
> > From: Eric Welch [mailto:ewelch@ponyexpress.net]
> >
> > We're all Americans from the Arctic to Argentina.
> 
> Sorry Eric, but only an American (as in U.S. citizen) could have written
> that sentence.  The rest of us denizens of this pair of loosely linked
> continents consider the term to have been completely appropriated by "those
> Americans".  Canadians are especially sensitive on this point.  Like it or
> not, nobody else sees that adjective as a taxonomic identifier.
> 
> Paul Chefurka

I don't want to get caught in the crossfire but aren't we in North America?
Isn't what is below us Central America? And below that South America? And below
that Antarticamerica?
Mark Rabiner