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Cristina Fernandez hosts Rousseff to address political and trade issues
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff will travel to Buenos Aires on Thursday for a two-day meeting with her Argentine counterpart Cristina Fernández and discuss political and trade matters between the two countries after an imports drop in Argentina last year and the cancelling by Brazil of a major investment project. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThey just love their frequent flyer miles these leftist Latin American leaders.
Apr 24th, 2013 - 08:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's no wonder there are more groupings and acronyms in Latin America that anywhere else in the world.
Yes I wonder what these two will be tossing into the cauldron, eye of Nestor, ear of Timmerman, moustache of Mujica.
Apr 24th, 2013 - 08:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0They are Paraguay plotting!
Brazil,s economy not doing too well either,so any more from you C.F.K. and
Apr 24th, 2013 - 08:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0you,ll get a slap!
@2 Britworker
Apr 24th, 2013 - 08:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Voodoo economics indeed.
Cristina Fernandez hosts Rousseff to address political and trade issues. And ask for a loan.
Apr 24th, 2013 - 10:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Its OK for CFK to talk to Dilma,
Apr 24th, 2013 - 10:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0but she should perhaps understand that Vale is not owned by a government
.... it is what they called a 'private' company, with shareholders.
Arguably the biggest mining company in the world.
'Private' could be a strange concept for her to cope with.
Something doesn't smell right here. I used to have some respect for Dilma, but now I'm not so sure.
Apr 24th, 2013 - 11:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0In this picture, they look like they are plotting to prepare a stew of the toes and ears of small children.
Argentina is quickly turning their trade surplus into a deficit. As I told everyone last year don't count on Brazil to help you out by buying more cars. Brazil has its own problems and can't help out anyone.
Apr 24th, 2013 - 11:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think Brazil and Argentina will devalue their currencies in a race to the bottom.
What a mess these dumb Socialists have made of their countries.
Anyone who thinks BRIC nations are going to rescue the world or the Power Axis is going to tilt towards them are a little nutty in my book. Not one of them has good stats and all appear to be falling into their tried and true proven paths to economic failure.
Yankeeboy
Apr 24th, 2013 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Haha the BRICs. What a failure.
Once the Soviet Union invented a new economic paradigm.
The west was doomed and would be irrelevant.
Then Japan invented a new economic paradigm.
And the west was doomed and would be irrelevant.
The the BRICS invented a new economic paradigm.
And the west was doomed and would be irrelevant.
@7
Apr 24th, 2013 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0You see thats the difference between a rational person - you have an idea that makes sense at the time and then with further evidence you adjust your viewpoint - and an irrational ideologist (such as 'BK') who regardless of the evidence continues to ignore the incriminating facts or bends them to fit the mould.
I uesd to think Dilma wasnt too bad as well but now I agree with you - theres something a bit dodgy about her. Brazil is so much more powerful than its neighbours economically and can really afford to set the agenda yet it seems pretty listless as far as regional politics. Why?
#2 How about bollocks of Cartes, since he'd rather shoot them off than accept a gay son!
Apr 24th, 2013 - 11:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0´The Argentine government has sided with the unions´
Apr 24th, 2013 - 12:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The same unions who threatened to kill the officers involved in the project......what more can you say about a left wing, socialist Bolivarian government!!!
I knew immediately Dilma would screw up Brazil. How in the world could any country that wants to grow elect someone with her background?
Apr 24th, 2013 - 12:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She is completely out of her depth.
Wow, ignorant comments rule this website!
Apr 24th, 2013 - 01:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#14 My God! that was such a deep counter point it must have made all of us free marketers speechless!!!! Did you ponder that entire countpoint all night? Your brain must be sweating!! That was so brilliant you could not have possible contrived that all on your own?
Apr 24th, 2013 - 02:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 014
Apr 24th, 2013 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Only since you got here.
# 1 - Nice to know your opinion on how diplomacy is wrong. Traveling to neighboring countries for diplomacy is wrong, but traveling to countries half way around the world to bomb them is ok?
Apr 24th, 2013 - 02:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#2 - Just want to point out that is one of the most ridiculous comments I've read here. But you get points for humour.
# 6 - Vale do Rio Doce is a private company, but as with all large companies that are strategic to a nations economy, the government does an intensive job at promoting it, becuase supposedly it would be good for the economy as a whole (doesn't always happen, though)
# 7 - Yes, they are going to eat little children like all communists and Santa Claus.
# 8 - Socialists in Argentina and Brazil? Show me where they are because I haven't seen them in power. Don't confuse center-left capitalists with socialists.
# 10 - Brazil doesn't want to push it's agenda too strongly because it would come off as imperialist and the smaller countries would leave it's area of influence. What Brazil does is subtle diplomacy, and the Itamaraty sometimes has excessive patience with Argentina.
# 13 - What background? Oh, you mean having the courage to take up arms and fight against a corrupt and brutal military dictatorship.
# 15 - Poopy, in all the comments you make I have yet to see you say something intelligent. Or are you just yankeeboy with a different screen name? Lol, and I was up all night banging your mom! There, feel better now?
# 16 - Wow, you got me there! lol
@14 To be fair, your comment didn't really contribute much.
Apr 24th, 2013 - 02:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Re: BRICS The problem here is that much of the speculation is based on a paper written over 10 years ago when a guy from Goldman Sachs was looking at fast-growing and emerging markets of the future. ”Future' being the important words here. It was estimated that by 2050 there would be new economic superpowers to rival and compete with the USA. This speculation was grabbed and run with as if it would be an instant change in world economics.
BRICS (South Africa being the token African nation) do have great potential but are a long way from reaching it. There will be many hurdles along the way and possibilities of failure for at least some of the BRICS. I personally think that one of the BRICS will emerge as the dominant force and the others will play a more minor role.
BUT it is all a long way off. Even with the revised estimate of 2030 - revised to encourage investment - the BRICS have a lot of problems to solve before they can rival the USA.
Dilma will probably do something and say many things to placate CFK. It is not in the interest of Brazil to help Argentina along the road of destruction they are already travelling. Pretty much every country is standing back and waiting to step in and help the recovery when the K's finally bugger off.
# 18 - While the term “BRIC” emerged from that famous paper, the BRICS as a forum for discussion and certain strategic alliances is a whole diferent thing. The significance of the BRICS is that they make up and a growing part of the world economy, while the part of the world economy generated by the US, the EU and Japan has diminished over the last two decades. The BRICS are not about rivaling the USA, their interest is gaining more space in an ever more multipolar world. The unipolar moment that the USA lived after the end of the Cold War is over, both militarily and economically. The country with a potential to truly rival the US in the future is China, but is highly unlikely that the world will another superpower as the USA and URSS once were. The BRICS nation have their own problems, and problems amongst themselves (such as the China vs India border dispute), but their share of the world market will continue to increase, as well as the cooperation in between as far as it helps the interests of each nation. The BRICS are not a solid organization in which one will “emerge as a dominant force”, but rather a loose strategic alliance for the objective of achieving more influence in a multipolar world.
Apr 24th, 2013 - 03:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps you were Brazzie...... she's been dead for 15 years.......lol. Necrophilia.....is that what you are telling us?
Apr 24th, 2013 - 04:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brics will only continue to develop under one universal assupmtion, that they can constinue to increase imports to free and developed nations. How will Brazil continue grwoing when they cannot sell to Argentina, How is China doing when the USA is shifting to Malaysia and Thailand? Bric countires cannot expand by depending on selling to themselves.
19. You have no idea what you are talking about,
Apr 24th, 2013 - 04:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Current GDP USA EU Japan is 36B
BRIC 13.5B
Even with a 8% growth rate for a decade ( which will never happen) you get to 30B so to overtake USA EU Japan we would all have to have 0 to negative growth for a decade.
Most of this growth comes from China which I think you'll see dip to 2-3% growth rate as the economy falters and matures.
That's if they don't have a recession or depression from Revolution.
Your BRIC dream doesn't match up to reality
not surprising.
# 20 - You can exchange “mom” for your “wife” if it makes you feel better. Sounds like you didn't understand the sarcasm in response to your stupid comment.
Apr 24th, 2013 - 04:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As far as the BRICS go, they trade with whole world. Did Brazil stop trading with the US or the EU? No. How is China doing? They're growing a lot more than the US and the EU. I'd say they're doing pretty good, but keep on telling yourself that the US and EU are doing better. You ignore the domestic markets of the BRICS, which are all growing at an incredible pace, while the internal market of the USA is riddled in crisis, and the EU, well, it's so messed up right that it would be cowardly to pick on it (if it even continues to exist much longer).
@22 My point was that BRIC (S) will be more significant in the future but that does not necessarily mean the demise of current economic powers any time soon, or at all.
Apr 24th, 2013 - 04:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am not aiming this comment at you in particular but a lot of people misunderstand the situation. Too many people get hyped up about BRIC countries when the balance of power has not shifted all that much when you look at the statistics. That is not to say it cannot but adopting socialist/nationalist policies does not enhance the chances of a country becoming a major player or even benefiting in a small way.
Excpet for CHina the BRIC nations all have GDP around U$2B. That is about the size of California.
Apr 24th, 2013 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not irrelevant but close
With 1 BILLION people in CHINA living on less that u$5/day I don't' see them buying an iphone anytime in the near future, do you ?
Do you not understand each of these countries is going through a severe downturn and or on the verge of having their bubble popped?
Do you read any current news?
Sure brazilian, if that makes you feel better saying that like it's reality, go for it. Is that a latam version of sarcasm , brazilian or just yours?
Apr 24th, 2013 - 05:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yankee I believe you meant trillion, as California's GDP is in trillions. My tiny Massachusetts has a nearing 400 billion GDP and a balanced budget. I don't think when these latin economists that post here as opposed to managing there countries economy realize that less developed countries can easily experience greater growth rates than developed nations can. Conversely they will also experience greater lows and higher inflations rates as well. Looking at charts of less developed nations will look like a roller coaster.
@17
Apr 24th, 2013 - 06:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yay, Brazilian thinks I have a good sense of humour. Thankyou Brazilian and I have to return the compliment, it's humerous person indeed that names themselves after a shaved vagina. :-)
Way to go Britworker.....still lmao and snorted coffee out my nose. Perhaps he named himself that because he's always getting fucked.
Apr 24th, 2013 - 06:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hahahaha
Apr 24th, 2013 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now they will have a go at Brazil for a couple of days :)
Like flavour of the day.
Brazil, Uruguay loves you. And Argentina too. Chile, what a beauty of a nation... And Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia... Lets not forget Paraguay, Peru and last but not least, Venezuela.
My brothers, all.
you missed some,
Apr 24th, 2013 - 07:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0or are the others your sisters..lol.
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Apr 24th, 2013 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I always miss those 2... Never mean to though
But of course our love goes to Surinam and Guyana as well
Cheers Briton.
mmmm
Apr 24th, 2013 - 07:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ok
lol
Lay off Brazilian, he can be a 'good guy' - knowing about and supporting his nation.
Apr 24th, 2013 - 08:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He sounds like Forgetit used to sound.
He and I will disagree about a lot - that's all right;
but we can all learn a lot about Brasil and its perspective by listening to him and people like him.
Bet you TMBOA will say at the end of the two days Brazil 100% supports us over the Falkland Islands
Apr 24th, 2013 - 08:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Living hand to mouth...
Apr 24th, 2013 - 08:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://bloom.bg/17eQQSU
Brazil's economy has come to a standstill to match Argentina going backwards
Apr 24th, 2013 - 09:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/04/22/chart-of-the-week-brazils-foundations-undermined/#axzz2R330uWq5
Though I always had the highest hope for Brazil out of all the BRICS, it doesn't seem to be happening.
South Africa and Russia will be regional heavyweights but not globals ones.
India will keep hoping its demographic dividend will kick in and it can utilise its ill educated population as it heads towards 2 billion.
Chima's workforce started its long term contraction last year which will gather pace and accelerate as its population starts to decline in about 10 years time. Japan 30 years ago is China today.
Brazil could have done it but it just won't unshackle its economy to let it thrive. The government keeps trying to pick winners and can't stop meddling to try and control.
Some will be regional powers.
Some will be global powers.
None will be superpowers.
Brasil is Brasil forever. We growth, we are a single country. Far to greats empires like Spain or England. We are poors, we are richs, and now midle class (hahaha). But, the important is: our lifes and destiny belong to us. Ours mistakes, ours glories, our pain, our territory, ours resources, ours times or not. Remember, we are lusophones in América! Only one! WE ARE! Very, very pride to ours lusophones colonization! One single world in América with language, culture and way of life. This is my country! BRASIL!
Apr 24th, 2013 - 09:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Soooo close to 9...so close
Apr 24th, 2013 - 10:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0$8.94/US1
Protestor surround Congresso
And in Argentina you are not considered in poverty if you make more and U$0.66/day!!
I ask you, can it get any better?!
Money, money, money, money, money!!! Do you eat money? Papers, papers, papers, papers!!! Do you eat papers? Capitalism, capitalism, capitalism, capitalism!!! Do you survive? Buy, buy, buy, buy, buy!!! Careful with the our planet! IGNORANT BOY!
Apr 24th, 2013 - 10:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2013/04/24/cristina-fernandez-hosts-rousseff-to-address-political-and-trade-issues#comment241441: Maybe the same way that the US elected President Bush (GW), the president who brought us the Great Recession, for two terms.
Apr 24th, 2013 - 10:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@Anglotino
Apr 24th, 2013 - 10:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0--Japan 30 years ago is China today--
remember that 30 yrs ago were the 80's. I'd go back 50 years.
#39 brought US the great recession.....you're an American?
Apr 25th, 2013 - 12:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0@40 Tobers
Apr 25th, 2013 - 01:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Japan 30 years ago is China today”
What I meant was that back then Japan had the new economic paradigm and high growth rates and was seen as eclipsing the west because it was buying up everything.
Not in standard of living or income. China will be hard pressed to reach Japan's levels in the next 40 years for the vast majority of its population.
When Japan's real estate bubble burst, it tried to protect itself from the pain of restructuring (a bit like some European countries now) and then came its decline in population.
I'm not sure when China's real estate bubble will burst, but considering the estimates on state debt held by local government and state banks, the pop will be heard around the world. It won't be so bad if China uses it as an excuse to restructure its economy, but considering that China is pretty much an oligarchy now; I'm not holding my breath.
There's there the impending population decline. Originally thought to happen in 2030, then it was 2025, now it is currently 2020. So there's a good chance it will happen before that.
Well, I guess with the end of the USA as a superpower, then the veredict is the world will be very regionalized in the 20th century with no one country dominating the world.
Apr 25th, 2013 - 01:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Best scenario possible really.
American? Yes, i am......WE ARE AMERICANS! We born in América Continent! South América, Central América or North América. But, i dont “estadounidense”. Estadounidense=born in United States. Please, more inteligence, “Admiral”!
Apr 25th, 2013 - 01:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry Brasileiro
Apr 25th, 2013 - 02:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0That is not how it works in ENGLISH. Maybe in Spanish and Portuguese but not in English.
American means someone from the United States.
If you aren't American, then you are South American, Latin American, Central American, North American or whatever your nationality is.
Sorry but that is how it is in English. If you don't like it, then I suggest you don't talk in English.
America means the United States of America. The Americas are all areas in the North and South American continents. That's how we differentiate.
There is no such thing as the American continent that you spoke of. There are two continents - the Americas. One is called North America and one is called South America. Neither is just called America.
When I speak Spanish, then I conform to what the language dictates as the norm.
So please be more intelligent.
Nostrils
When did the USA cease becoming a superpower? Supposedly you are a university student, though like many you haven’t come to grasp 'critical thinking'. Look up the definition of a superpower before making asinine comments.
Also we’re in the 21st century. Well at least those countries that have moved beyond Argentina are.
Being so young and inexperienced in the world and getting your knowledge from the top level of Google means you have little indepth knowledge of pretty much anything.
The US was written off in the 70s and the Soviet Union was seen as rising.
The US was written off in the 80s and Japan was seen as rising.
And now we are in 2013 and the same people are writing off the US again and China is seen as rising.
Give your beatings a little historical perspective and again you look pathetic.
Lets see...
Apr 25th, 2013 - 03:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0In 1950, the United States was 52% of world GDP. In 2013, it's 20% and by 2015 will fall to 19% or lower.
In 1950, the United States was the worlds biggest net lender, In 2013 it is the world's biggest net borrower and debter.
In 1950, the United States had an expanding middle class. In 2013 it has a shrinking middle class.
But keep believing otherwise, and just ignore the facts. I really don't care.
I see you didn't look up the definition.
Apr 25th, 2013 - 03:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Anglotino,
Apr 25th, 2013 - 09:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0I have had two long-term partners, both of them American but only one of them has ever lived in the USA. One was born in Brasil and the other in Belize. Both have held British citizenship for many decades.
I am, myself, a European; I was born in England. I guess I am an EU citizen with a Permanent Residence visa for Brasil.
Some European countries are not in the EU; their inhabitants are still European.
Some thirty odd larger countries are in the Americas; their inhabitants are American but they are not US citizens.
It has always seemed to me totally presumptious for people from the USA to claim that they are the only Americans.
Anglolatino
Apr 25th, 2013 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0America is a continent. not a country or a people.
Your ignorance may tell you otherwise, but that does not affect the english language.
If you are referring to the short form for “Unite States of America”, that's a whole other matter. That they call themselves Americans is their problem, the name is USA.
We call them yanquis, estadounidenses and sometimes, like Piero, americanos
;)
GeoffWard2 and Stevie
Apr 25th, 2013 - 11:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0I don't make the rules guys!
GeoffWard2 if you are indeed English/British/European with English as your native tongue then you would know that in English, America refers to the United States and American to its citizens.
What you did was a false analogy with Europe. Just as any of the people that come from any of the 54 countries in Africa can call themselves African.
Then again, Europe isn't technically a continent is it? Just a region really.
In English THERE IS NO CONTINENT CALLED AMERICA. It English it is two continents referred collectively as THE AMERICAS.
There is the continent of NORTH AMERICA encompassing 23 countries over 24,490,000 km2 and the continent of SOUTH AMERICA encompassing 12 countries over 17,840,000 km2
Otherwise why is UNASUR the Union of Nations of South America? Why not just the Union of Nations of America?
Now perhaps it is different in other languages. But we are not talking in those languages. We are talking in English.
As you show Stevie, you have plenty of names for Americans: “yanquis, estadounidenses and sometimes, like Piero, americanos”.
However in English they are Americans.
They might sometimes be Yanks or Septic Tanks but at the end of the day nicknames don't count.
When I speak in Spanish I call them 'estadounidenses' but we aren't speaking Spanish here now are we!
Again I don't make the rules.
Anglolatino
Apr 25th, 2013 - 11:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0That US citizen and some Brit lapdogs call the yanquis for Americans doesn't change anything.
America comes from Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer that gave name to the entire continent.
The language doesn't matter, I could call USA Europa in Spanish, that wouldn't change anything.
You can repeat a lie the number of times you wish, it will still be a lie.
A continent is one of several very large landmasses on Earth. They are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, with up to seven regions commonly regarded as continents—they are (from largest in size to smallest): Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.[1]
Apr 25th, 2013 - 12:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0North America and South America are treated as separate continents in the seven-continent model. However, they may also be viewed as a single continent known as America. This viewpoint was common in the United States until World War II, and remains prevalent in some Asian six-continent models.[13] This remains the more common vision in Spain, Portugal and Latin American countries, where they are taught as a single continent. This use is shown in names such as the Organization of American States. From the 19th century some people used the term “Americas” to avoid ambiguity with the United States of America.
There you have it. If you are English speaking 7, if you are Spanish speaking 6. I declare it a draw !!!!
# 26 - This really is irrelevent to the discussion, just want to point out to you that “Brazilian Waxing”, as you people call it, is a different thing from shaving. But I guess you were just attempting to be funny (Brits aren't too good at that). And as far as “Brazilian Waxing” having become a synonym for waxing the excess of hair that comes out of a womans bikini, you should be happy that some of your monstrouly hairy crooked-teeth women now at least have a little better higiene around their pussies. You can wax your women's vaginas, but aint much you can do to fix uglyness. Cheers to ya there in bushland!
Apr 25th, 2013 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2013/04/24/cristina-fernandez-hosts-rousseff-to-address-political-and-trade-issues#comment241687: In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, following the American Revolution there was a tacit expectation in the US that the revolutions would continue and, as a result, the US would expand to occupy all of America. This expectation was not very well thought out and, given the historical and cultural realities extant, not at all realistic. However, the Bolivarian Revolution, in its initial phase did explicitly reference the revolution that resulted in the formation of the US.
Apr 25th, 2013 - 05:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unfortunately the Bolivarian Revolution was abortive in that it was quickly hijacked by a oligarchical aristocracy - which was certainly un-American. And so it was in the 19th and much the 20th century despite various attempts to chance this situation (Brazil's history is somewhat different, of course).
However, with the fall of the military juntas and other authoritarian regimes and the adoption of democratic government the Bolivarian Revolution has been resumed. And it is for this reason that the 21st century will truly be the 'American Century'.
Ironically, after WWII, the US left America to become an imperial power, changing the government and national psyche with the passage of the NSA et al. This is the century that the US will return to America and come closer to its roots.
Although America is geographically bounded its definition exists in the political domain.
#54
Apr 25th, 2013 - 06:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I would have thought that Asia -especially China - would claim the 21st century.
Their people have an appetite for hard work and advancement.
The SA countries will have to rid themselves of the mañana syndrome to compete.
Brazilian #53, Britworker #26, etc.
Apr 25th, 2013 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I winced when you suggested epilation/depilation took place on the vagina. This would be pretty useless - and invasive; the mammalian vagina is totally glabrous - for obvious reasons. You mean the external skin surface over and around the mons pubis. And Brasilians have a special need because of the world-famous skimpiness of their bikinis.
Merkins are 'the opposite'...
I remembert the São Paulo Fashion Week had a nude model dressed in transparent plastic. She wore a merkin to make her appear 'more natural' and acceptible in this catholic country. Quite a display of 'The Queens New Clothes'!
More to my style, I use merkins when bonefish fishing - it's hairy and crab-like ... with a hook in it.
If 'Brazilian' names himself after this topiary he is in good company - Peter Sellers acted the US President in Dr. Strangelove, President Merkin.
Come now gents,
Apr 25th, 2013 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No more history lesions,
Let’s start from the top,
1, Canadians =Canada
2, Americans=United States of America
3, Mexicans-down to panama abt, [Central Americans
4, south of panama or the South American continent,
==south Americans
5, Falklands= is in the south Atlantic but not part of mainland south America.
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Now you should know better,
1, Europeans=in the south west=Spain Portugal
2, in the east as far as Poland
3, south down to the Mediterranean countries including Italy Greece
4, north Europeans=France bell, Germany, Holland den,
…………………………………………
Scandinavian countries
Norway Sweden Finland,
Russia is considers [east]
But some refer to west Russians as European
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UK ,Great Britain= British isles [full stop]
Iceland = very bloody cold
And no doubt someone somewhere will say,
That’s not true Briton blab la bla .
Still,
Just an opinion like lololol.
and you can interprit as you wish.
,,,dong dong .
Anglolatino
Apr 25th, 2013 - 07:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There is nothing called “the Americas” as America is not naturally divided by water.
There are 5 continents;
America
Africa
Euroasia
Oceania
Antarctica
The rest is all in your head.
“There is nothing called “the Americas” as America is not naturally divided by water.” #58
Apr 25th, 2013 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oceania is a million islands all naturally divided by water ... mighty perculiar!
Well Stevie keeps proving he's never lived in an English speaking country.
Apr 25th, 2013 - 08:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0However I do believe your claim that you come from the Americas.
#58
Apr 25th, 2013 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Have you heard of the Panama canal ? This is effectively a body of water dividing N and S. America It is accepted wisdom that Europe and Asia are regarded as continents.
Of course, you being the world's leading expert on geography you know better than everyone else or are you just playing at semantics as usual.
59
Apr 25th, 2013 - 10:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Checkout the definition of a continent.
60
Brits and yanquis could call Uruguay Mozambique for all I care. America is still a continent.
61
The Panama canal is not natural, it's man-made.
you southies love wikipedia.
Apr 25th, 2013 - 11:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent
63
Apr 25th, 2013 - 11:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 07, 6, 5, 4 continents.
By definition, there are only 4 though, not 5 as I earlier stated. Africa-Eurasia, America, Australia, Antartica.
I stand corrected, also on the Oceania being a continent. The continent is of course Australia per definition.
This is a very interesting discussion. Fact is that America, both North and South, were named America 1507 after Amerigo Vespucci.
That was long before USA was even thought of.
If you lot want to use that name, feel free to do so, it doesn't change the fact that America is a continent. And if you wish to divide it in two, as many people do according to Poppy's wiki, America is still the name of the “new world”, north and south.
Now ask a geological scientist how many there are. Most people will say they are German than European, Vietnamese than Asian......Algerian than African, Canadian over American or North American. You get the gist....no?
Apr 26th, 2013 - 12:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0#54 What a brilliant comment, truly enlightening =)
Apr 26th, 2013 - 12:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0A continent is a landmass with specific characteristics. Each continent is unique, but they are all characterized by two features: ancient, geologically stable regions and younger geologically active areas. The great mountain ranges of the continents are found in these younger regions. Most have extensive plains or plateaus. All of the continents, except Antarctica, are “wedge-shaped,” wider at the north than at the south.
Apr 26th, 2013 - 12:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0By convention there are seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Antarctica. Some geographers list only six continents, combining Europe and Asia into Eurasia. In parts of the world, students learn that there are just five continents: Eurasia, Australia, Africa, Antarctica, and the Americas.
To some geographers, however, “continent” is not just a physical term; it also carries cultural connotations. For example, Europe and Asia are physically part of the same landmass, but the two areas are culturally diverse. (That is, the various cultural groups in Asia have more in common with one another than with those of Europe.)
Islands located near a continent are generally considered, in a geographical sense, part of that continent. Greenland, for example, is politically part of Europe but belongs geographically to North America, as do the islands of the Caribbean and the western North Atlantic Ocean. There are some islands and island groups, however, that are not considered part of any continent, geographically speaking. New Zealand, Hawaii, and French Polynesia are among them.
Oceania is the collective name for the lands of the Pacific Ocean, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Oceania is a convenient way to name these areas, which, with the exception of Australia, are not part of any continent. But Oceania itself is not a continent.
NG
Poppy
Apr 26th, 2013 - 08:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0That's all great, except of the fact that there are no “Americas”, but only one.
The one named after Amerigo Vespucci back in 1507.
Long before the existance of the USA.
You are making no sense steverina. Can you comprehend my point?
Apr 26th, 2013 - 10:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0@68
Apr 26th, 2013 - 10:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think you are misunderstanding Poppy. He is asserting the the Americas are not named after Amerigo Vespucci but a Amerigos Vespucci who was an obscure dung collector and who suffered multiple personalities. This assertion allows Poppy to have as many Americas as he likes.
there you go thinking tobias. My assertion is that Americans is merely a label applied to people living in a certain area called named from their nation. Perhaps you all need to find out how continents got their names.
Apr 26th, 2013 - 11:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Call it whatever you want. In proper portuguese somone from the continent of America is “americano”, and someone from the USA is “estadounidense”. They are two different things. While it is common to refer to the USA as America, it is not the whole continent, and all the people from the nations of America are “Americans”. And as far as what we call people from the US here in Brazil, our prefered term is “ianqui”.
Apr 26th, 2013 - 01:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Here I leave you with a poem called América, by argentinean poet Rubén Vela:
“Esto es América”, me decían,
mostrándome las altas cordilleras,
el suicidio del sol sobre los trópicos,
los grandes ríos furiosos.
Sólo vi pies descalzos,
criaturas americanas
sobre el hambre y el frío
como frutos desnudos.
“Esto es América”. Sobre las tierras
indias del centro y del sur
vi desolación. Y, al borde,
las grandes ciudades opulentas, sólo
al borde...
How many times do you retards have to be told HOW WE USE CERTAIN words in English.
Apr 26th, 2013 - 01:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If WE, THE NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS point out a term you are using incorrectly just take the lesson and move on.
Trying to prove to us we are wrong IN OUR OWN LANGUAGE makes you look insane.
This discussion over continents is by far the stupidest yet.
Apr 26th, 2013 - 02:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0# 74 - Yankedoodle, seems like you are not aware of how a dictionary works. If you pick up ANY DICTIONARY of the english language, you will see that America is a Continent, and American designates the people from that continent. In casual language, America is used as a synonym for the United States of America, and American for the people of the USA, even though this becomes ambiguous, as has been pointed out inumerous times here, and all proper grammar tries to avoid ambiguity. And so far as to the english language, it seems to me like most people who speak english fluently as a second language (or third in my case) actually have better grammar than most people in the US. At least the Brits learn in school how to write properly in english. When I go a CNN forum it's like watching a massacre of the english language.
Apr 26th, 2013 - 02:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yankee Doodle went to town
A-riding on a pony,
Stuck a feather in his cap
And called it macaroni.
Brazilian my suggestion is to drop it, you've been told you are wrong in many posts by many contributors.
Apr 26th, 2013 - 03:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you want to continue to look like an idiot it is your choice.
the bald vagina speaks with a hole in it's tongue. Serious diarrhea of the keyboard he has.
Apr 26th, 2013 - 03:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In another post, he believes the brazzies military is a powerhouse too!
@ 76-77 - Lol yankeedoodle and captain poopy, I wonder who's the man in the relationship between both of you!
Apr 26th, 2013 - 03:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ouch! sniff sniff SA wit is so sharp! That hurt
Apr 26th, 2013 - 03:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't cry poopy, you can always walk out of your closet.
Apr 26th, 2013 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2013/04/24/cristina-fernandez-hosts-rousseff-to-address-political-and-trade-issues#comment242207: What a give away!
Apr 26th, 2013 - 03:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So, our little brown brothers from down south are determined to argue despite the fact that we have told them to stop. Who do they think they are! Well, we all know what this means. We're going to have to send a task force. If that doesn't stop them then we will have to bomb. Who knows, this might a situation where regime change is called for. Wadya think?
oh boy thank you. You're my favorite bald vagina. You're fun to play with.
Apr 26th, 2013 - 04:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ahhhh nothing like a reference to homosexuals........was that also suppose to be an insult?
yanqui
Apr 26th, 2013 - 04:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“If WE, THE NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS point out a term you are using incorrectly just take the leson and move on.”
Hahahaha
If YOU, yanqui, tell me anything, anything at all, I will use it best way possible. In order not to let any of your prophecies and common ignorance pass, I will indeed type it all down, with graphite, on a piece of paper in order to wipe myself after I'm done.
I'll swear to make the best use of your words, like a temporary tattoo on my arse...
;)
Mayhap
Apr 26th, 2013 - 05:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Twist
retard
If we the native latine speakers point out a term you are using incorrectly, like America being the name given to the “new world” after Amerigo Vespucci, just take the lesson and move on.
Apr 26th, 2013 - 05:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0;)
9.28/1 :)
Apr 26th, 2013 - 05:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks Brazilian. But, change your nick. Saxons like a barbarians. Remember Rome and classical culture. Go to the Classical Age with your nick. Thanks
Apr 27th, 2013 - 02:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Back on topic
Apr 27th, 2013 - 03:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Mercosur agrees to trade with Mercosur, as Argentina's economy tanks and as a good friend, Dilma let's CFK drag them down too.
Not really news. Same in three months, but by then the AR Peso will be worth 12/1 with the US dollar
:-)
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/04/24/cristina-fernandez-hosts-rousseff-to-address-political-and-trade-issues#comment242180: The problem with your position is that language is not some paradigm handed down from on high to a greatfull and passive population. It is mutable. This is especially true of American English which has shown that it has been very fluid over the centuries. Yet it has not evolved to avoid the claim of ownership of “America” as a synonym for the USA. Why is that?
Apr 27th, 2013 - 05:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ 72:
Apr 27th, 2013 - 06:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0I am calling bullshit on you. I am Brazilian, and “americano” has long been the standard Portuguese word for the citizens of the United States of America, i.e., the standard Portuguese word for AMERICANS. “Estadunidense” is also in the dictionary, but it accounts for less than 5% of the references to them. “Ianque” (not “ianqui”) and “gringo” are typically used by leftist idiots like you, as they are derogatory terms. (A derogatory term for Brazilians is “tupiniquim”, which you richly deserve.) Besides, Brazilian teachers of geography typically talk about two continents: “América do Sul”, and “América do Norte”. And they call their combination “As Américas”, not “América”, which is normally used to refer to several Brazilian football teams. Stop making stuff up.
@71
Apr 27th, 2013 - 06:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Since there is no nation called America I assume you are referring to United Statesians.
@90ljordao
Apr 27th, 2013 - 06:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0“I am calling bullshit on you. I am Brazilian, and “americano” has long been the standard Portuguese word for the citizens of the United States of America, i.e., the standard Portuguese word for AMERICANS. “Estadunidense” is also in the dictionary, but it accounts for less than 5% of the references to them. ”
Ljordao
Thank you for speaking and exposing the truth.
If those others had to make up facts, one has to doubt their false arguments, and their honesty about their issues and their motives.
ljordao
Apr 27th, 2013 - 09:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Another expat...
Do what you are supposed to do. Go use some dollars.
I'm calling bullshit on you, as “Americano” isn't Portuguese or English. It's Latin.
And as Anglolatio said, you can't change an entire language, no matter how hard you try.
Those from USA are Anglo Americans
Portuguese usage
Apr 27th, 2013 - 11:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0In Portuguese, the word americano refers to the whole of the America. But, in Brazil and Portugal, it is widely used to refer to the citizens of the United States. The least ambiguous terms, estadunidense (used in Brazil, something like “United Statesian” or “estadounidense” in Spanish), and “ianque”—the Portuguese version of “Yankee”—are rarely used. América, however, is rarely used as synonym to the country, and almost never in print and in more formal environments, where the country is called either Estados Unidos da América (i.e. United States of America) or simply Estados Unidos (i.e. United States). There is some difference between the usage of these words in Portugal and in Brazil, with the Portuguese being more prone to apply the term América to the country.
Amazing where this thread went.
Apr 27th, 2013 - 02:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@95
Apr 27th, 2013 - 02:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Possibly because the meeting itself was such non event !
# 90 - Another angry brazukinha who never had the education to be able to have a succesfull career in Brazil. Here we are talking about what it gramatically correct, not what is casual or slang. The grammatically correct term (do you know what grammar is, Brazuka?) for someone who is born in the United States in portuguese is estadunidense, sometimes norte-americano is also commonly used. “Gringo” in Brazil is used for all foreigners: a German would be called “gringo” in Brazil too, and it is not necessarily derrogative. Tupiniquim is dorregative to sad racist fucks like you. I am proud of my amerindian heritage. Brazilian teachers (I am one) refer to the “continente americano”, North, South and Central America are considered subcontinents, just as Europe is considered a subcontinent or Eurasia. Seems like you weren't paying attention in class, brazukinha. Maybe if you had a better education you wouldn't be washing dishes there in republicrat land.
Apr 27th, 2013 - 02:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0# 94 - Estadunidense is the grammatically correct term used in all official and academic papers. Sometimes “norte-americano” is also used (specially in the news), although it is still ambiguous and Canada and Mexico are also considered North America. http://www.dicio.com.br/estadunidense/
http://www.dicio.com.br/estadunidense/
96. I don't think it was a non-event. CFK was told to wrap it up with Vale and don't screw with them. Vale signed an agreement to pay the workers 1/2 wages until the elections.
Apr 27th, 2013 - 02:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How convenient
But better than the 18 mos they're required by law to pay.
Wonder how they got around that
hahaha
I guess we saw who was boss
Mendoza is screwed
@97:
Apr 27th, 2013 - 04:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have already told you to stop making stuff up. Even in academia, “Estadunidense” is the rare exception, not the rule. Here is what Google books returns when we type “revolução estadunidense” and “revolução americana”, respectively:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22revolu%C3%A7%C3%A3o+estadunidense%22&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22revolu%C3%A7%C3%A3o+estadunidense%22&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1
As to your pathetic accusation of racism, it has made my day, since it is a sure sign that you are out of argumentative ammo. Besides, even though my present address is irrelevant to the truth of what I have written, I am not an expatriate Brazilian, as I live in Rio de Janeiro. Please stop embarrassing yourself.
@99ljordao
Apr 27th, 2013 - 05:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ljordao
It's good to have you on this forum to counter the lies of people like “Brazilian”.
He might have got some of them past is posters who do not live in SA or visit on a regular basis.
He seems to have a very fragile ego - on a personal level, he hates to be shown that he is wrong, and despite his protests, he seems to have a chip on his shoulder about being 'Amerindian'.
Secondly, his pride, and that of many of the Troll psychopaths, seems to be injured when people of the USA are commonly referred to as “ Americans”, yet that vernacular is not used for the inhabitants of the continent of South America - they are “South American” or “Latin American”.
'Technically' correct or not, that is the way it is. Too bad.
Canadians are not usually called “Americsns” by anybody, although I could argue that they are as entitled as much as the Mexicans or countries of South America, 'technically'.
The difference is that unlike the Trolls on here, we don't care. We like our own identity and we don't cry, pout, or whine about it, and we don't report false information to make our arguments believable.
Say what you want.
Apr 27th, 2013 - 06:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Fact is that America was named 1507, way long before USA even existed as a country.
You are of course free to choose to call the yanquis as you want, as they are.
But that doesn't change the fact that America is the Latin name for North, Central and South America.
And you can't change an entire language at will, just ask Anglolatino...
;)
Fuck, you are still trolling on continents? Man! I need to click on now more emaisl on updates to this nowhere thread.
Apr 27th, 2013 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yankee, Argentina has a prorated severance when there is no notice.......typical one month pay for each year, plus accrued vacation. Double that is the employee is pregnant or within one year postpartum. I have a few friends (more acquaintances) in BA that just fired a bunch of office workers because it is getting harder and harder to get paying and try to match annual raises to the actual inflation. I think they are moving their offices.
Poppy
Apr 27th, 2013 - 07:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You've been trolling on Argentina for quite some time now.
What's wrong, you get upset if you don't get to choose what topic to troll about?
Look at you now, trolling about Argentina again...
Trolls .....troll off topic. You're managed to reach #103 about continent names and the topic is trade between Argentina and Brazil.
Apr 27th, 2013 - 09:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Look at me now trolling about the topic of the article,........image that. Yoy should be very lucky, at least happy you no longer live in SA.
Your friends have nothing to do with the article.
Apr 27th, 2013 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The article is about trade between Argentina and Brazil, not Argentinas inflation.
Troll
Sure, whatever you say. You are SA and the rest of the world knows what that equates to. So if it makes you feel good to think I'm a troll......so be it. Ok.....I am a troll.........lol.
Apr 27th, 2013 - 11:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We all know Dilma was giving her a tongue lashing. asslips needs Dilma more than Dilma needs asslips. If Dilma takes the actions asslips has, Argentina is fucked.
So thankfully Stevie has finally realised that “as Anglolatio said, you can't change an entire language, no matter how hard you try.”
Apr 28th, 2013 - 12:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Still can't get my name right but he finally admits that in English:
AMERICANS come from AMERICA which is in the AMERICAS.
Can't change a language no matter how it is said in Spanish or Portuguese.
Anglolatino
Apr 28th, 2013 - 08:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0America is Latin.
Name given to North, Central and South America.
In 1507.
After Amerigo Vespucci.
Feminised fot follow the tradition of continents having female names.
Way long before USA even existed.
And you can't change it.
Not matter how hard you try.
;)
Stevie
Apr 28th, 2013 - 09:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0I am telling you how it exists in ENGLISH in TWO THOUSAND AND THIRTEEN.
Not 1507.
Jeez dude, get with the times. In 1507 your country didn't even exist, so technically you aren't any nationality according to your logic. No Uruguay, no Argentina = no Stevie?
But thank you for the history lesson on how the name came about. But this is not about how the name was invented or coined but how it is USED in ENGLISH now.
Not a single country outside of the USA has incorporated the word AMERICA into its name. NOT A ONE.
But considering your history lesson, it was Thomas Jefferson in 1776 that first included the word AMERICA to name a country.
Perhaps it is because even though Spanish and Portuguese settlement occurred before British settlement, that neither of these empires used the word America to name or describe them. It was the British that called their colonies British America.
Portugal perhaps should have rethought 'Terra da Santa Cruz' and Spain should have rethought 'Virreinato de Nueva España'.
Indeed the word America is rarely used for any names for anything outside the US.
You can use America however you want in Spanish or Portuguese but your belief or need for it to mean the same thing in English doesn't stand up to the norm.
AMERICANS come from AMERICA which is in the AMERICAS.
You can't change that, you have already admitted that you can't change a language. I might not be able to change history, but you can't change a norm.
In English you are South AMERICAN or Latin AMERICAN or from the AMERICAS. But in English you are NOT American. In Spanish, maybe, but not in English.
No matter how hard you try.
@ Captain Poppy
Not happy with the way the topic has gone off track? Then stop reading. However it is true that the importance of Dilma meeting with Kirchner is that unimportant that no one really cares. Every three months they meet up. Kiss kiss and say nice things and then go back home and stab each other in the back through their actions.
As you said yourself, Anglolatino.
Apr 28th, 2013 - 09:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0You can't change a language no matter how hard you wish you could.
America is Latin.
Not English.
Try harder.
;)
Anglotino, it's not so much as unhappy of the track as I am more amazed that no matter how much you slap Stevie around, he come back for more.
Apr 28th, 2013 - 12:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I had read that no matter how displeased Dilma gets with another SA country, she will always make her sentiments known behind closed doors. Supposedly though, the auto industry was a big talking point.
111. Car imports are the big stick that Brazil has over Argentina. Surprisingly they're almost their only customer.
Apr 28th, 2013 - 02:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That is why I think if IMF kicks out Arg, thereby losing membership in WB and ICSID Ford and GM will pack up and move production to Mexico and Brazil.
Never to return
It would also solve a lot of logistic problems for both companies.
Ford said they expected to start selling the new models this fall in Brazil. Now either they have some export concession from KFC, or I do not see how they can continue to operate in Argentina. I know that auto sales in Argentina through Feb 2103 were up 5% yoy, however they were also down 44% in Feb to Jan 2013. I just do not see Argentina being able to support a Ford profit.
Apr 28th, 2013 - 03:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Captain Poppy
Apr 28th, 2013 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes I actually realised after I posted that my descriptor was more aimed at CFK than Dilma. She might not be the best on economics, but Dilma is a lot more statesmanlike than CFK. No rants and seems to have a little more gravita.
And Stevie does keep coming back.... like being down the park with my dog and a frisbee. He's tried to impose a different language's norm on English and failed miserably. Supposedly America is now Latin. Those pesky Romans!
I'll have to brush up on my Latin now before I study there!
But he failed to prove that in ENGLISH 'AMERICANS come from AMERICA which is in the AMERICAS' is false.
All he did was prove that it is different in Spanish.
Which was the point I was making. I keep telling him he says what I need him to say.
“You can't change a language no mater how hard you wish you could”
I've even got him repeating my mantra. Now there's training for you.
“You can't change a language no mater how hard you wish you could”
Apr 28th, 2013 - 08:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There you have it again
You can't change Latin. America is a Latin name.
You can use it at will though.
Feel free
;)
Is it archaic latin?
Apr 28th, 2013 - 10:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Classical Latin?
Medieval Latin?
Renaissance Latin?
Early Modern Latin?
Modern Latin?
Or perhaps you are referring to one of the many spin off languages from latin, such as spanish or Portuguese? When it comes to a name, anyone can label it however they want.
If this is your entire point:
If you lot want to use that name, feel free to do so, it doesn't change the fact that America is a continent. And if you wish to divide it in two, as many people do according to Poppy's wiki, America is still the name of the “new world”, north and south.
Depending on where you live, teaching how many continents there are varies. It makes sense that SA would want to be associated with NA, however the scientific community is not in dispute on how many continents there are. BTW stevie, we live in a heliocentric start system.
As for changing names.......New York is not Nueva York yet you insist on changing it. You really are much ado about nothing, but it's ingrained Guzz.
@110:
Apr 28th, 2013 - 10:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No language has exclusive property of any words. For example, “cobra” belongs both to English and to Portuguese, and its English and Portuguese meanings are overlapping but different. (Everything an American calls “cobra” is something a Brazilian calls “cobra”, but not vice versa, as “cobra” means in Portuguese what “snake” means in English.) Therefore, it is downright stupid of you to say that “America” cannot mean X in English because it does not mean X in Latin. Heavens! We are beyond comment 100, and you just won't spare us a full display of your idiocy. I would tell you to try harder, if I believed you could improve your performance.
What are you talking about. A Brazilian IS an American...
Apr 28th, 2013 - 11:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And don't forget western hemispherians as well as earthlings. You have gone beyond proving you are an idiot with your pointless drivel, no need to exploit that fact now....is there, especially that ljordao did not say Brazilians were not Americans.
Apr 28th, 2013 - 11:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0One American continent is a view held in SA, however, 7 continents is the widely held and accepted view among scientist just as global warming is a generally accepted science, but who in SA cares about science guzz....right?
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/04/24/cristina-fernandez-hosts-rousseff-to-address-political-and-trade-issues#comment242679: It seems you are not from the US because if you were you would know that English has changed, English is changing and English will change.
Apr 29th, 2013 - 03:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is not really an argument about language but about attitudes. And attitudes have changed, attitudes are changing and attitudes will change. But, in any case, we are entering a period in which how any particular group of English speakers will be not be regarded as particularly important.
119
Apr 29th, 2013 - 07:53 am - Link - Report abuse 07 continents is widely accepted amongst scientists.
6 continents is widely accepted amongst scientists.
5 continents is widely accepted amongst scientists.
4 continents is widely accepted amongst scientists.
Be careful on that one, I said the same as you about 5 comtinents until I checked it up...
But who in Anglo America cares about facts andy....right?
Stick with farming that's what you southies are in for.
Apr 29th, 2013 - 09:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Stevie
Apr 29th, 2013 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Why do you always use the following terms for areas outside the United States? Latin America
Latin American
South America
South American
Why don't you practise what you have extensively preached on here?
Especially considering Spanish is not your mother tongue and you don't live in either Latin America or South America.
17 posts on this topic but interesting if you will be able to answer these simple questions. Highly doubtful but nevertheless interesting.
123
Apr 29th, 2013 - 09:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Check post 121.
See that “Anglo American”?
Otherwise I tend to call them yanquis.
I use Latin American when I refer to all those countries in America that have Latin languages as their official languge.
South Americans are those Americans that live in the territory south(east) of Panamá, Panamá not included.
Those areas aren't outside the USA, USA is the one being outside. In North America.
There you find Anglo Americans.
Thanks Stevie
Apr 29th, 2013 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0So you don't use the term American for..... what was it?
”South Americans are those Americans that live in the territory south(east) of Panamá, Panamá not included.”
You just proved my point.
Not that difficult for someone that doesn't live in South OR Latin America.
Indeed I do.
Apr 29th, 2013 - 10:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Read the sentence again.
“South Americans are those AMERICANS....”
See?
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