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Override a strange dictionary quirk in Pages '08
Authored by: meikokun on Aug 16, '07 09:13:39AM

1) since you (I assume you feel grand enough to represent your country on this little stage) are in more debt than ANY nation in the world, I don't think you qualify as the wealthiest. Anyone can by a mercedes on the drip, that doesn't mean you're rich. (as an aside, notice how no one ever uses an american car as a paragon of automobile excellence?)
2) just as none of like that awful little bully in the playground, and most everyone secretly - or openly - hopes he'll get a real good kicking someday, nations and their *ahem* representatives should be careful about how they wield, and talk of, power. one should also remember that power is a fragile and transient thing, especially when all that power is paid for on the drip (see point 1)
3) in your nation you speak English, have a greco-roman system of representation, have a law system base on British common law, have derivative tv shows, and a movie system that trots out the same old crap on a regular basis. I could go on, but I'm bored already - even though I've barely scraped the concept of culture. If you mean you have brought to the world obese, obnoxious, arrogant fools, I think other cultures in history even have prior art of you there too. Even Apple won't let americans build their computers, so how home-produced are *those* cultural icons? (their chief designer is British, dontchaknow?)

you see, prefixing things is often a case of simple manners; perhaps as you mature as a nation (and, dare I say it, an individual) you'll learn such things. We are called 'old europe' because we have been around the block a bit, not like some snot-nosed little shit trying to hustle you for quarters on the street corner. Friend.



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Override a strange dictionary quirk in Pages '08
Authored by: macosx4me on Aug 19, '07 04:23:51PM

As an American who lived for years in Canda, speaks French and German (although that's fading fast), and actually knows how most English speakers outside America spell (the colourful nature U.S. "spelling" took some serious adjustment - and I use "color" euphemistically), let me just say:

One obnoxious American does not represent all Americans. I hate it when myopic, misguided arrogant types puff up their chest and presume to speak for others in this country. It's become endemic :/



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