Re: [OT] Native American (was Re: Postcards - 2nd set)
Carsten Haese wrote: > 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. JGP just has to widen his spectrum of sessions a bit to get what he seeks. Curt Cotner is a Cherokee. http://www.wocmag.org/2004/fall/spectrum.html Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development IBM Toronto Lab IOD Conference http://www.ibm.com/software/data/ondemandbusiness/conf2006/
Even closer to home, I believe Jerry Keesee a Native American Serge Rielau wrote: > Carsten Haese wrote: > > 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. > JGP just has to widen his spectrum of sessions a bit to get what he > seeks. Curt Cotner is a Cherokee. > http://www.wocmag.org/2004/fall/spectrum.html > > Cheers > Serge > -- > Serge Rielau > DB2 Solutions Development > IBM Toronto Lab > > IOD Conference > http://www.ibm.com/software/data/ondemandbusiness/conf2006/
Sitting Bull was a Native American. --- scottishpoet <dryburghj@yahoo.com> wrote: > Even closer to home, I believe Jerry Keesee a > Native American > > > Serge Rielau wrote: > > Carsten Haese wrote: > > > 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. > > JGP just has to widen his spectrum of sessions a > bit to get what he > > seeks. Curt Cotner is a Cherokee. > > http://www.wocmag.org/2004/fall/spectrum.html > > > > Cheers > > Serge > > -- > > Serge Rielau > > DB2 Solutions Development > > IBM Toronto Lab > > > > IOD Conference > > > http://www.ibm.com/software/data/ondemandbusiness/conf2006/ > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
>> 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. Surely *all* people in the USA are descended from immigrants. It's just that a few of them are descended from people who immigrated 15,000 years ago.
Ian Wilson wrote: >>> 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. > > > Surely *all* people in the USA are descended from immigrants. It's just > that a few of them are descended from people who immigrated 15,000 years > ago. In that sense, every human not living in central Africa is an immigrant! OK, I can accept that. Art S. Kagel