<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 at 15:28, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 10/15/2021 9:21 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<blockquote type="cite">SuStel:
<div dir="auto">> You keep saying "native american." Be</div>
<div dir="auto">> aware that in the United States, this</div>
<div dir="auto">> phrase, capitalized, refers to a member of</div>
<div dir="auto">> an indigenous tribe, not to any natural-</div>
<div dir="auto">> born citizen of the US.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I didn't know that. So how does one describe
people born and raised in the u.s.a?</div>
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<div dir="auto">Just "americans", or does he need each time to say
the entire "natural born citizen of the u.s.a"?</div>
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<p>In English, the only simple word we have for it is <i>American.</i>
I remember the delight I experienced in high school when I learned
that Spanish had a separate word for it, <i>estadounidense.</i><br>
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<p>In Canada, the indigenous tribes are called First Peoples.
Canadians are familiar that US English uses <i>Native American</i>
instead (though many Americans aren't equally familiar with the
Canadian term), so I'm not sure how a Canadian would interpret the
phrase <i>native American.</i> They'd probably just assume you
were using the US English term.</p></div></blockquote><div>I'm Canadian and I understood that the usage was an error, but with the obvious intended meaning of "native speaker of American English". <br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>