[OT] Native American (was Re: Postcards - 2nd set)

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 20:28, Jean Georges Perrin wrote: > http://www.db2mag.com/postcards2.shtml > > jgp Quote from the linked story: "Ok, now, Ambuj puzzled me. He spoke about DB2 Viper. I understood Wiper. So now, I understand why DB2 is big in the banking industry. Hey, I am not making fun of him (more of me actually), we are all foreigners here. It's been a while and I have not seen a Native American." I am trying to decide whether you know what the term Native American means in the USA. (In case there are readers out there that do not, Native American refers to indigenous peoples of the Americas.) I can read your last two sentences in two distinct meanings, and I'm not sure which one you mean. One is that you don't know this usage of Native American and simply mean "native English speaker". The other one is that you do know this usage and are making a clever comment on how most people in the USA are immigrants or descended from immigrants. I know this is off-topic, but I can't help but wonder what you really meant. -Carsten