Exactly.
Some people seem to think the English language is static and unchanging, which is far from the truth. Words take on different meanings and happily co-exist alongside their older definitions.
My son calls things that are good, 'sick', and things that are very good, 'totally sick'. Now, according to busybody, that can't be, sick is sick because the two words are spelt the same.
im not a english major or nething..... but if you shorten a word im pretty sure the root meanin stays the same.
u say yanks are americans(settlers/colonist to brits).... to U.S. southerners a yankee would be guess what. a settler/colonist, same thing. busy said pretty much what J said and ummm so did i
Really?
When you attach a different meaning to a word it becomes a new word, even if the spelling stays the same, which in this case it doesn't.but if you shorten a word im pretty sure the root meanin stays the same.
Not the same thing, our definition has nothing to do with settlers or colonists, just Americans.u say yanks are americans(settlers/colonist to brits).... to U.S. southerners a yankee would be guess what. a settler/colonist, same thing. busy said pretty much what J said and ummm so did i
That went right over his head JP.Originally Posted by JPaul
No, it doesn't mean the same over there, you've already said so, and if you've 'lost' me it's because I only understand about a third of your illiterate posts.point made, but this word(Yank) still means the same thing. it still refers 2 americans, jus over here its region specific. lol maybe thats where we lost Ava... that n the 2 e's. might jus b 2 much at once 4 him.
Well Rikk you seemed to have lost something (I'm not surprised).
Let's see if you can get it (GayPaul even mentioned it).
"Yank" and "Yankee" are and have been used by foriegners to refer to Americans.
That's pretty simple. You can yell about different spellings and whatnot but the fact is that "Yankee" has more than one meaning depending on whether you are American or foreigner. "Yank" is short for "Yankee".
Duhhh.
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