Re: [OT] Native American (was Re: Postcards - 2nd set)
Off-topic thread about Native Americans in the Informix and database community. Serge Rielau, scottishpoet and Jerry Hamilton named people said to be of Native American descent, and Ian Wilson and Art S. Kagel joked that nearly everyone is descended from immigrants. No technical content.
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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