Question for the Non-Americans

[Viking]

Wow! You are old!

Coming from methusaleh here that is a compliment

I'm not the one who claims he has changed his name-calling over the course of at least "36500 days." 

In fact, I have made no claims about great age at all.

"we" not "I"

[grumbler]

"we" not "I"

I keep forgetting that English isn't your native language.

In English, "we" is the first-person plural.  "I" is first-person singular.  In English, "we" includes "I."  The only difference in English between "we did it" and "I did it" is that, in the first case, you are expressly not the only one who did it.

So, when you write in English that "we called them that for over 36500 days" you are claiming that you did this, as well. 

You'd have been better-off sticking to the passive voice, rather than shifting to the active voice with the "until, one day, we didn't call them anything special."

[alfred russel]

"we" not "I"

I keep forgetting that English isn't your native language.

In English, "we" is the first-person plural.  "I" is first-person singular.  In English, "we" includes "I."  The only difference in English between "we did it" and "I did it" is that, in the first case, you are expressly not the only one who did it.

So, when you write in English that "we called them that for over 36500 days" you are claiming that you did this, as well. 

You'd have been better-off sticking to the passive voice, rather than shifting to the active voice with the "until, one day, we didn't call them anything special."

He was referring to the Icelandic community, of which he is a part.

[The Brain]

"we" not "I"

I keep forgetting that English isn't your native language.

In English, "we" is the first-person plural.  "I" is first-person singular.  In English, "we" includes "I."  The only difference in English between "we did it" and "I did it" is that, in the first case, you are expressly not the only one who did it.

So, when you write in English that "we called them that for over 36500 days" you are claiming that you did this, as well. 

You'd have been better-off sticking to the passive voice, rather than shifting to the active voice with the "until, one day, we didn't call them anything special."

He was referring to the Icelandic community, of which he is a part.

It's grumbler.

[Viking]

"we" not "I"

I keep forgetting that English isn't your native language.

In English, "we" is the first-person plural.  "I" is first-person singular.  In English, "we" includes "I."  The only difference in English between "we did it" and "I did it" is that, in the first case, you are expressly not the only one who did it.

So, when you write in English that "we called them that for over 36500 days" you are claiming that you did this, as well. 

You'd have been better-off sticking to the passive voice, rather than shifting to the active voice with the "until, one day, we didn't call them anything special."

In Icelandic? No indiginous words for mixed race people.

Edit: though we did follow a "one drop rule" kind of thing. In one case where a french ship was shipwrecked in my home village the crew settled and married into the locals, they were just called french, until, one day we didn't call them anything special.

[grumbler]

He was referring to the Icelandic community, of which he is a part.

He wasn't a part of it when this occurred.  His is a common mistake, I will grant.

[Viking]

He was referring to the Icelandic community, of which he is a part.

He wasn't a part of it when this occurred.  His is a common mistake, I will grant.

I was part of it when we called them french, the ship sank in the late 19th century and when I was young they were still referred to as french.

[alfred russel]

He was referring to the Icelandic community, of which he is a part.

He wasn't a part of it when this occurred.  His is a common mistake, I will grant.

It isn't a common mistake; it is a common usage. "We" can refer to a nationality that includes the speaker. It is one of the definitions of the word "we".

Even ignoring the fact that you would be wrong in any event, based on Viking's last statement.

[derspiess]

Wow.

[Viking]

He was referring to the Icelandic community, of which he is a part.

He wasn't a part of it when this occurred.  His is a common mistake, I will grant.

It isn't a common mistake; it is a common usage. "We" can refer to a nationality that includes the speaker. It is one of the definitions of the word "we".

Even ignoring the fact that you would be wrong in any event, based on Viking's last statement.

Things have changed so much since those days. Now we have the Argentinians.

[Josquius]

[Viking]

HEY, that's my second cousins you are dissin'

[Caliga]

I was part of it when we called them french, the ship sank in the late 19th century and when I was young they were still referred to as french.

Why didn't they just go home?  It's not like this happened in 850 AD or something...  was there a surplus of young hott maidens in the village at the time or something?

[Viking]

I was part of it when we called them french, the ship sank in the late 19th century and when I was young they were still referred to as french.

Why didn't they just go home?  It's not like this happened in 850 AD or something...  was there a surplus of young hott maidens in the village at the time or something?

Iceland 1867 = France 850



The ship was the Admiral-l'Hermite out of Dunkirk in 1867, 20 sailors were shipwrecked and they settled.

[grumbler]

It isn't a common mistake; it is a common usage. "We" can refer to a nationality that includes the speaker. It is one of the definitions of the word "we".

Actually, "a nationality that includes the speaker" isn't one of the definitions of the word.  You can look it up.  Your attempt at semantic shenanigans fails.

Even ignoring the fact that you would be wrong in any event, based on Viking's last statement.

I looked at the following two statements:

How many days passed before you stopped calling them French?

at least 36500 days

and concluded that Viking was saying exactly what he was saying;  that he called them French for at least 36500 days.  That's 100 years, give or take a few days.

Not sure how I could be wrong in using his words exactly as he wrote them.