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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] [QUOTE]So his "leaving it out" actually makes sense, more so that leaving it in.[/QUOTE]Right. So Bush should be allowed to call the inhabitants of Iceland "Iceish," since the inhabitants of Ireland are Irish, Scotland Scottish, and Finland Finnish. And how about those Iranis, tucked in that part of the world near the Saudis and Iraqis and, um, Pakis. Indeed, aren't the Turkis over there, too? There is absolutely no regular system for matching the placenames to the name used by inhabitants. "Making sense" doesn't factor into it. In the circles of international diplomacy, you simply are expected to know things like that, indeed, sillier things, too. If you don't know, you're supposed to have teams of advisors handing you a dossier on Air Force One to make sure you know the name of Musharaf's wife(s), the GDP and principal exports of Pakistan, and the small matter of the correct way to refer to its inhabitants. I don't buy the "he shortened it" excuse. I can't say I've ever "spoken off the cuff" and unintentionally shortened "Japanese" to "Jap." He simply exercised his patented Dubyaist wit and blundered ignorantly into another situation, presumably ignoring his advisors. Oops. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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