talking dogs

[Jules Siegel]

At 08:14 AM 07/17/97 -0700, Paul Mackin <mackin at allware.com> wrote:

>In Central America they describe us as estadounidense. This
>wouldn't have worked back when there was an Estados Unidos
>de Centroamerica, however. Seems to me Mexico is officailly Estados
>Unidos de Mexico, but I may be remembering wrong. What do THEY
>call us? Gringo dogs no doubt.

Among themselves they call us gringos, usually, and it's not necessarily a
derogatory term. Mexicans are much to polite to call us dogs. In the
newspapers, they usually refer to us as norteamericanos, although Mexico and
Canada are on the North American continent too. candaians are canadienses.


--Jules Siegel Apdo 1764 Cancun QR 77501
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