Sorry, it just gets on my nerves when a 4th-generation American loses his temper and blames it on "being a hotheaded Italian," or drinks too much and attributes it to "being Irish" or some such. There is ethnicity and there is citizenship of birth.

Oh totally.I hate white people who weren't born in a palace.You are from the place you were born in so stop blaming this or that on what cage your parents come from.Mine come from a parakeet cage.It's why I shit on my feet.

Whether Australia sucks, America sucks, or England sucks, one thing for certain is that Porkmarras most definitely sucks.

I just got a little misty there.

I am the first generation to be from the United States. Even my mother was born in Germany. Piss off, fat queen.

shush, gringo... :p

... or should i call you kurt?

I'm just saying I'm no less American than Porky is English.

you mean benito???

You lost me at 'you'.

ha ha

Yes, but you were indeed born here, which makes you American and not German, no matter how close you are to the Vaterland.

Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Über alles in der Welt,
Wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze
Brüderlich zusammenhält,
Von der Maas bis an die Memel,
Von der Etsch bis an den Belt -
|: Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Über alles in der Welt. :|

You still do not seem to understand, old man. I'm saying that Porky is English by living there. I'm American, yes. I was being sarcastic and saying my heritage makes me German and not American.

Understand now, ya?

I get it, but the analogy is not really apt.
Porky is an expatriate Italian who is native to Italy and living in England, while you are the American-born son of a German-born mother, living in the country of your birth.
Ja.

you meant "ja", kurt?

Piss off.

Off piss.

hey hey-- you silly imposter you...

It doesn't matter who came first,what matters is who does the best impersonation.

Hayden do you speak german?

i wanna see a catfight between porkie & his troll

please???

You can't still be the real one,bitch!

you got to give some rep points to sn@ke again.

There is a very, very large difference between 'correct' formal English and the general vernacular/ idiomatic/ sociolectical English used in general conversation. You are, of course, technically correct. However, I have never known anyone use the noun 'American' to refer to anything other than a citizen of the USA.

In fact, I took the liberty of having a cursory glance at dictionary.com which lists several uses of the word, both in the context you speak of and the more common use.

Sorry. Pedantry is a horrific disease.

well, the french word you are probably thinking of ("états-unien" instead of "américain") is really rarely used...
i believe it's not comparable to the usage of the portuguese "estadunidense", the italian "statunitense" (i did not know about these two until today, though) and of course the spanish "estadounidense"...

Jeesus. If it's going to be complicated, can't we just get rid of/ ignore the USA and continue with all the good countries (and Wales and Australia), just like God intended?

see, fools, everyone is right here.

sure america is a continent like europe or africa, continents inhabited by europeans and africans. well, people from the american continent call themselves americans.

the problem comes from the fact that
estados unidos do brasil = brasil
estados unidos mexicanos = mexico
united states of america = .... ?

the name came up when the rest of the american continent was under spanish, french or english rule, so it wasn't "officially" anything.

get used to it, the gringos have monopolized the name because the took it first... bizarre, as if there was a country called "united states of europe" which did not include the whole continent, but there you go.

Quite a bit. I used to know more but I haven't spoke it in forever. I only talk to my grandpa and grandma in German as my mother has forgotten almost all of it.

have you ever watched "the boys from brazil"?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077269/

hayden is the original hitler clone :p

Yeah, but the Nazis took care of their queer contingent in The Night Of The Long Knives.

Oh, Ten Pole Tudor. I bet you thought of that when you typed that, didn't you eh?

I do believe your words were somerthing like: "Only a moron would refer to dictionary.com"

You know, I think you're right? You're still a prick though.

ZING! Whatever that means.

I'm always right.

Spot on. This editing post game is a lark, no?

Shouldn't that have been "from monkey'?

die.

Why can't tsunamis happen more frequently,i ask you?

Glice edited 'cause he fucked up and had "... for monkey" HAHA.