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Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@guerrag.com> writes:Perhaps so, but their numbers are almost certainly _vastly_ exceeded by
>> As "American" means "Citizen of the U.S.A." they are the same.
>
> a lot of non-USian-americans find that offensive
the number of people (not just in the U.S., but all over the world) who
use the term as given above -- and of course language is defined by
usage, not political correctness within certain narrow segments of
society.
If you want to argue to the original poster that what he said is
_offensive_, feel free to do so (though he'll probably just ignore you),
but his usage was not incorrect.
-Miles
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