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No offense... That's what my slash meant...

by Getb (guest)

11/17/2004, 4:31 PM

I placed the slash beacause I wasn't sure whether it lived in both or only in one of them... you know, it means "or" so... but... Are you sure? I will take your word for granted 'cause I'm not truly sure... Bye

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- Chrisell +2

11/17/2004, 7:15 PM

She may not be sure, but I am! Tigers are Asian.

Oh, and there's no such thing as "newyorkian"!! New York isn't a country, it's a city. The correct word is merely "American", or "from the United States" if you want to be more specific.

- Getb (guest) +1

11/18/2004, 9:08 PM

Ok I knew that but...

I wanted to specify it was from New York... (It's trully wrong that "American" based upon the continent is used as only word formally pertinent to those who inhabit that country when it corresponds to the continent; it would be like if there where no word for "Italian" else than "European"; unacceptable) In Spanish and I believe that in some exceptions in English such words for geographical regions smaller than countries do exist, just that they might be uncommon...

- Chrisell

11/19/2004, 7:52 PM

It's irrelevant that it's from New York - distinguishing that it's from one city in particular makes no sense. And there's still no such word as "Newyorkian". The correct way to say it would be "from the US". You could add "(published in New York)" if you were desperate to be more specific, but as I said it's really irrelevant which city it was published in.

The word you are looking for is "State".

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