...many citizens in other countries south of us consider themselves "Americans."
Americans of the South American continent. Nothing wrong with that, but if you are referring to a single country and state America as a singular noun the only reasonable conclusion is that you are from the United States of America.
I'll ask again, do you think it's wrong to use United States as if no other country has states that are united? Of course not, you're just being bigoted and xenophobic.
They refer to US citizens as "North Americans."
And US citizen (aka: Americans) are North Americans thus the term is appropriate. They are also Westerners, just as Europeans are Westerners, depending on the location and culture from which the statement is being made. This is rocket science!
Good Golly Miss Molly! I make a little joke, go away for a bit, come back and find the "Literal Web" has gone ballistic on me. Take a deep breath everyone and let it go. Just let it go.
To be fair, some places DO consider the Americas a single continent, just as Eurasia is sometimes considered a single continent. But that still doesn't excuse the ignorance of context clues that started this whole thing.
????
Why do you use characters which appear as square boxes on most computers?
PS: No man is an island, except maybe Australians.
"No man is an island.............................................................................................................................................he's a peninsula" -- Spencer Dryden
I thought that this thread would be about iPads and Brazil, but apparently I was wrong. Some jealous people and historical revisionists, quite similar to holocaust deniers and other revisionists, seem to have a problem with the standard definition and the accepted meaning of common words.
If you're not a US citizen, then you are not American, end of story. Too bad for you.
In the Eddie Murphy movie, "Coming to America", only very dumb people and extremely ignorant individuals would ever think that the title meant that the movie would be taking place in South America, for example.
I think you are all missing something. The new iPhone, iPod touch and -- the iPad - could well be 16:9 to compete with the fire. This would make them a larger iPod touch - i.e apps for a retina display could zoom up to this non retina display exactly.
Could be, but the idea presupposes that *all* of Apple's devices are moving to a 16:9 format of which there is yet no evidence at all.
Also, the entire rumour is predicated on the 1024 x 768 layout and the 7.85" size of the panel. So the first part of the rumour argues directly against 16:9 and the second part (the diagonal size), means that even if the part were 16:9, it would be within a half inch or so of being the same height as the original iPad and still be around 6" wide. That isn't very "mini" at all.
It would also mean (again predicated on the idea that Apple *isn't* turning the entire line to 16:9), that Apple would be selling two iPads, one "regular" one "mini," that are barely indistinguishable in size (one being slightly narrower for the most part), but that have completely different screen resolutions and thus require two different versions of the apps for each. I don't see Apple doing this ever.
IMO it makes more sense to keep the 16:9 for the iPhone ,and possibly a new iPod touch and keeping the 4:3 ratio for the iPads since they are more document centric devices. If they want to cover the entire market, an iPad mini that's 4:3 at roughly 7.75" x 6" and a new iPod touch at 16:9 at roughly 4" diagonal would leave no holes for competitors at all.
To be fair, some places DO consider the Americas a single continent, just as Eurasia is sometimes considered a single continent. But that still doesn't excuse the ignorance of context clues that started this whole thing.
????
Let's settle this once and for all! I can think of no better arbiter than Bo Diddley in his learned dissertation on the subject:
Quote:
Say Man
Say man, what's that boy?I want to tell you 'bout your girlfriendWhat about my girl?Well, you don't look strong enough to take the message
I'm strong enoughI might hurt your feelingsMy feelings are already hurt by being here with youWell, I was walking down the street with your girl the other day
Ah, haAnd the wind was blowin' real hardIs that right?And the wind blew her hair into my face
Ah, haYou know what else happened?What happened?The wind blew her hair into her face
Yeah?And we went a little further, you wanna hear the rest of it?I might as wellThe wind blew her hair into the street
Okay, since you told me about my girlI'm gonna tell you about yoursI was walking down the street with your girlYes?
I took her home, for a drink, you knowTook her home?Yeah, jus' for a drinkOh
But that chick looked so uglyShe had to sneak up on the glass to get a drink of waterYou've got the nerve to call somebody uglyWhy, you so ugly, the storkThat brought you in the world oughta be arrested
That's alright, my momma didn't have to put a sheetOn my head so sleep could slip up on meLook a hereWhat's that?Where are you from?
South AmericaWhat's that?South AmericaYou don't look like no South American to me
I'm still from South AmericaWhat part?South TexasWhere are your workin' boots at?
I've got 'em onThere aren't no boots you got on, those broguettesHey, look a here What's that?
I've bin tryin' to figure out what you is
I already figured out what you is
What's that
You that thing I throw peanuts at
Look a hereWhat's that?You should be ashamed of yourselfWhy?
Calling people uglyI didn't call you uglyWhat you say?I said you was ruined, that's all
You know somethin'?What?You look like you've bin whooped with a ugly stickHey, I ain't got nothin' to do with it but I beat the fellah, right
Edit: Sorry I tried to upload/link the original song -- but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that on AI anymore...
Good Golly Miss Molly! I make a little joke, go away for a bit, come back and find the "Literal Web" has gone ballistic on me. Take a deep breath everyone and let it go. Just let it go.
Really...
Although individuals with Asperger syndrome acquire language skills without significant general delay and their speech typically lacks significant abnormalities, language acquisition and use is often atypical.[8]Abnormalities include verbosity, abrupt transitions, literal interpretations and miscomprehension of nuance, use of metaphor meaningful only to the speaker,auditory perception deficits, unusually pedantic, formal or idiosyncratic speech, and oddities in loudness, pitch, intonation,prosody, and rhythm.[1]Echolalia has also been observed in individuals with AS.[36]
Children with AS may have an unusually sophisticated vocabulary at a young age and have been colloquially called "little professors", but have difficulty understanding figurative language and tend to use language literally.[1] Children with AS appear to have particular weaknesses in areas of nonliteral language that include humor, irony, and teasing. Although individuals with AS usually understand the cognitive basis of humor, they seem to lack understanding of the intent of humor to share enjoyment with others.[18] Despite strong evidence of impaired humor appreciation, anecdotal reports of humor in individuals with AS seem to challenge some psychological theories of AS and autism.[37]
Here are some ideas for sizes discussed so far and my idea for a mid-sized iPad/Touch. Please excuse my poor Photo-hacking here.
After looking at all these ideas, personally, I'd take the 6" touch. Perfect for gaming, slim enough for your pants pocket. Comparable to a PSP-sized device. and maintaining the 3:2 aspect of the current iPhones for web browsing, email and reading. Actually this size is very close to the dimensions of a standard paperback book.
Discuss...(click to enlarge)
Edit: after further comments below, I reduced the bezel on the 6" iPad image to be similar to the Nook tablet and simple touch. But I kept the top/bottom bezels the same as before, which is the same as the iPhone. Personally, you would not be able to hold the 6" touch in portrait view very easily, it would only be really usable in Landscape mode. That's why I showed a more iPad-like version. for comparison. Additionally, you'd have to keep the top/bottom bezels symmetrical, and since the home button is the same size on all iOS devices (I don't see why they'd make it smaller) you couldn't get much slimmer on the bezel there.
I'd take the 7.85" (with less bezel as noted by another poster... but I'm sure Ive would make it very attractive). The 6" one would be fine as well. Anything that is smaller than the current iPad in the 6-8 inch range and has iOS (how about in between 6 and 7.85).
Here are some ideas for sizes discussed so far and my idea for a mid-sized iPad/Touch. Please excuse my poor Photo-hacking here.
After looking at all these ideas, personally, I'd take the 6" touch. Perfect for gaming, slim enough for your pants pocket. Comparable to a PSP-sized device. and maintaining the 3:2 aspect of the current iPhones for web browsing, email and reading. Actually this size is very close to the dimensions of a standard paperback book.
Discuss...(click to enlarge)
Edit: after further comments below, I reduced the bezel on the 6" iPad image to be similar to the Nook tablet and simple touch. But I kept the top/bottom bezels the same as before, which is the same as the iPhone. Personally, you would not be able to hold the 6" touch in portrait view very easily, it would only be really usable in Landscape mode. That's why I showed a more iPad-like version. for comparison. Additionally, you'd have to keep the top/bottom bezels symmetrical, and since the home button is the same size on all iOS devices (I don't see why they'd make it smaller) you couldn't get much slimmer on the bezel there.
Better than the 6-inch Touch would be a 5-inch version because then you would retain the portability that is the current Touch's reason for being.
Good Golly Miss Molly! I make a little joke, go away for a bit, come back and find the "Literal Web" has gone ballistic on me. Take a deep breath everyone and let it go. Just let it go.
Really...
Hey... AI loves your comment. Anything to get people amped on the weekend.
I've said it before. AI has to find at least 2 controversial topics for the slow news weekend to up the clicks... and you've inadvertently done the work for them.
Although individuals with Asperger syndrome acquire language skills without significant general delay and their speech typically lacks significant abnormalities, language acquisition and use is often atypical.[8]Abnormalities include verbosity, abrupt transitions, literal interpretations and miscomprehension of nuance, use of metaphor meaningful only to the speaker,auditory perception deficits, unusually pedantic, formal or idiosyncratic speech, and oddities in loudness, pitch, intonation,prosody, and rhythm.[1]Echolalia has also been observed in individuals with AS.[36]
Children with AS may have an unusually sophisticated vocabulary at a young age and have been colloquially called "little professors", but have difficulty understanding figurative language and tend to use language literally.[1] Children with AS appear to have particular weaknesses in areas of nonliteral language that include humor, irony, and teasing. Although individuals with AS usually understand the cognitive basis of humor, they seem to lack understanding of the intent of humor to share enjoyment with others.[18] Despite strong evidence of impaired humor appreciation, anecdotal reports of humor in individuals with AS seem to challenge some psychological theories of AS and autism.[37]
"The United States of America (commonly called the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States)"
What a great "rathole" this thread's become.....
I don't think anyone's noted that Columbus didn't think he'd discovered "America," or any NEW continent - or continents. He wasn't looking to discover a new PLACE at all, rather a route to an existing place to make trade with China and the far East easier. So he thought he was in Asia. (Note: He and his men after all may never have seen many or any Asians, maybe only sketches or verbal descriptions, and the indigenous population did have some of those characteristics.)
And as the Spanish gov't set up HQ in Hispanola, realizing over time, this was clearly not Asia, the new continents were later named after map-maker Amerigo Vespucci - who may not in fact have really deserved the credit - so the "re-discovery" and the whole name "America" is the result of a number of errors and accidents.
Meanwhile, North America was only distinguished as a separate area after South America had been known to Spain for a bit.
"The earliest known use of the name America for this landmass dates from April 25, 1507, where it was used for what is now known as South America."
"It first appears on a small globe map with twelve time zones, together with the largest wall map made to date, both created by the German cartographerMartin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in France. These were the first maps to show the Americas as a land mass separate from Asia.
An accompanying book, Cosmographiae Introductio, anonymous but apparently written by Waldseemüller's collaborator Matthias Ringmann,[25] states, "I do not see what right any one would have to object to calling this part [that is, the South American mainland], after Americus who discovered it and who is a man of intelligence, Amerigen, that is, the Land of Americus, or America: since both Europa and Asia got their names from women". Americus Vespucius is the Latinizedversion of the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, and America is the feminine form of Americus. Amerigen is explained as Amerigo plus gen, the accusative case of the Greek word for 'earth', and meaning 'land of Amerigo'.[25] (See etymology.) Amerigo itself is an Italian form of the medieval Latin Emericus (see also Saint Emeric of Hungary), which through the German form Heinrich (in English, Henry) derived from the Germanic name Haimirich.[26]
Vespucci was apparently unaware of the use of his name to refer to the new landmass, as Waldseemüller's maps did not reach Spain until a few years after his death.[25] Ringmann may have been misled into crediting Vespucci by the widely published Soderini Letter, a sensationalized version of one of Vespucci's actual letters reporting on the mapping of the South American coast, which glamorized his discoveries and implied that he had recognized that South America was a continent separate from Asia; in fact, it is not known what Vespucci believed on this count, and he may have died believing what Columbus had, that they had reached the East Indies in Asia rather than a new continent.[27]Spain officially refused to accept the name America for two centuries, saying that Columbus should get credit, and Waldseemüller's later maps, after he had ceased collaboration with Ringmann, did not include it; however, usage was established when Gerardus Mercator applied the name to the entire New World in his 1538 world map. Acceptance may have been aided by the "natural poetic counterpart" that the name America made with Asia, Africa, and Europa.[25]"
Today's "Native Americans" may not have been the original human discoverers either. The earliest "Paleo-Americans" - once thought to be the Clovis people in some theories (centered on North America) - may predate them by some thousands of years and may have died out before or during a later influx of the people we know today as "NAs." This could tie in with an (unconfirmed but not rejected) theory of a semi-massive meteorite strike in the northwest of North America - which may have helped lead to the extinction of many large North American fauna about 11,000 years ago, meaning those folks may have had a severe game shortage or been otherwise effected themselves. But much evidence has accumulated since this was proposed. Including genetic evidence of European type genes many (perhaps 10's of thousands of) years before Columbus or Ericsson. Some theories also talk about migrations of mammoth hunters to account for this.
"The archeological evidence suggests that the Paleo-Indians' first "widespread" habitation of America occurred during the end of the last glacial period or, more specifically, what is known as the late glacial maximum, around 16,500–13,000 years ago.[3]"
"The chronology of migration models is currently divided into two general approaches.[4][5] The first is the short chronology theory with the first movement beyond Alaska into the New World occurring no earlier than 15,000 – 17,000 years ago, followed by successive waves of immigrants.[6][7] The second belief is the long chronology theory, which proposes that the first group of people entered the hemisphere at a much earlier date, possibly 21,000–40,000 years ago,[8][9] with a much later mass secondary wave of immigrants.[10][11][12]"
"Pre-Clovis sites uncovered from 1973 to 1978 Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Pennsylvania site indicated occupancy as early as 16,000 years ago and possibly as long as 19,000 years ago. Dates in excess of 19,000 years have been claimed for the deepest occupation layer uncovered"
"Clovis theory – People were living near Clovis, New Mexico where tools from this era were found in the 1930s. This find gave rise to the widely held "Clovis First" theory that people spread through the Americas only after the Ice Age.[48]The Clovis culture was believed replaced by several more localized regional cultures, such as the Folsom tradition, from the time of the Younger Dryas cold climate period."
From which I deduce the new machine will be 7.85", assembled "in the Americas" and keep Android (and the Nook/Fire forks of same) from getting too well-established too soon where they could move up the food chain to the 10" range. And the new UI's for the slightly altered ergonomics will be code-named "Clovis." Until a giant meteor strike resurrects the Spanish Armada.
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I have always understood that Mexico is part of North America, not Central America.
I'll ask again, do you think it's wrong to use United States as if no other country has states that are united? Of course not, you're just being bigoted and xenophobic.
And US citizen (aka: Americans) are North Americans thus the term is appropriate. They are also Westerners, just as Europeans are Westerners, depending on the location and culture from which the statement is being made. This is rocket science!
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Good Golly Miss Molly! I make a little joke, go away for a bit, come back and find the "Literal Web" has gone ballistic on me. Take a deep breath everyone and let it go. Just let it go.
Really...
Central America isn't even a continent. Everything from Attu Island to Greenland, down to Panama and back over to Trinidad is North America.
I gotta tell you, this is honestly a MUCH better argument than thinking Apple's going to make a 7" tablet.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
To be fair, some places DO consider the Americas a single continent, just as Eurasia is sometimes considered a single continent. But that still doesn't excuse the ignorance of context clues that started this whole thing.
????
Why do you use characters which appear as square boxes on most computers?
With or without a camera ?
I did.
"But then you got back into it."
Because there seems to be nothing left to be said about the article, and no one listens anyway.
Quote:
Originally Posted by SolipsismX
PS: No man is an island, except maybe Australians.
"No man is an island.............................................................................................................................................he's a peninsula" -- Spencer Dryden
I thought that this thread would be about iPads and Brazil, but apparently I was wrong. Some jealous people and historical revisionists, quite similar to holocaust deniers and other revisionists, seem to have a problem with the standard definition and the accepted meaning of common words.
If you're not a US citizen, then you are not American, end of story. Too bad for you.
In the Eddie Murphy movie, "Coming to America", only very dumb people and extremely ignorant individuals would ever think that the title meant that the movie would be taking place in South America, for example.
Quote:
Originally Posted by SolipsismX
...
PS: No man is an island, except maybe Australians.
I believe the correct phrase (according to Pogo) is:
"No man is an Ireland"... Though there is at least one, here, that will dispute it!
P.S. Where is Mexico located?
Quote:
Originally Posted by asdasd
I think you are all missing something. The new iPhone, iPod touch and -- the iPad - could well be 16:9 to compete with the fire. This would make them a larger iPod touch - i.e apps for a retina display could zoom up to this non retina display exactly.
Could be, but the idea presupposes that *all* of Apple's devices are moving to a 16:9 format of which there is yet no evidence at all.
Also, the entire rumour is predicated on the 1024 x 768 layout and the 7.85" size of the panel. So the first part of the rumour argues directly against 16:9 and the second part (the diagonal size), means that even if the part were 16:9, it would be within a half inch or so of being the same height as the original iPad and still be around 6" wide. That isn't very "mini" at all.
It would also mean (again predicated on the idea that Apple *isn't* turning the entire line to 16:9), that Apple would be selling two iPads, one "regular" one "mini," that are barely indistinguishable in size (one being slightly narrower for the most part), but that have completely different screen resolutions and thus require two different versions of the apps for each. I don't see Apple doing this ever.
IMO it makes more sense to keep the 16:9 for the iPhone ,and possibly a new iPod touch and keeping the 4:3 ratio for the iPads since they are more document centric devices. If they want to cover the entire market, an iPad mini that's 4:3 at roughly 7.75" x 6" and a new iPod touch at 16:9 at roughly 4" diagonal would leave no holes for competitors at all.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
To be fair, some places DO consider the Americas a single continent, just as Eurasia is sometimes considered a single continent. But that still doesn't excuse the ignorance of context clues that started this whole thing.
????
Let's settle this once and for all! I can think of no better arbiter than Bo Diddley in his learned dissertation on the subject:
Quote:
Say Man
Say man, what's that boy?I want to tell you 'bout your girlfriendWhat about my girl?Well, you don't look strong enough to take the message
I'm strong enoughI might hurt your feelingsMy feelings are already hurt by being here with youWell, I was walking down the street with your girl the other day
Ah, haAnd the wind was blowin' real hardIs that right?And the wind blew her hair into my face
Ah, haYou know what else happened?What happened?The wind blew her hair into her face
Yeah?And we went a little further, you wanna hear the rest of it?I might as wellThe wind blew her hair into the street
Okay, since you told me about my girlI'm gonna tell you about yoursI was walking down the street with your girlYes?
I took her home, for a drink, you knowTook her home?Yeah, jus' for a drinkOh
But that chick looked so uglyShe had to sneak up on the glass to get a drink of waterYou've got the nerve to call somebody uglyWhy, you so ugly, the storkThat brought you in the world oughta be arrested
That's alright, my momma didn't have to put a sheetOn my head so sleep could slip up on meLook a hereWhat's that?Where are you from?
South AmericaWhat's that?South AmericaYou don't look like no South American to me
I'm still from South AmericaWhat part?South TexasWhere are your workin' boots at?
I've got 'em onThere aren't no boots you got on, those broguettesHey, look a here What's that?
I've bin tryin' to figure out what you is
I already figured out what you is
What's that
You that thing I throw peanuts at
Look a hereWhat's that?You should be ashamed of yourselfWhy?
Calling people uglyI didn't call you uglyWhat you say?I said you was ruined, that's all
You know somethin'?What?You look like you've bin whooped with a ugly stickHey, I ain't got nothin' to do with it but I beat the fellah, right
Edit: Sorry I tried to upload/link the original song -- but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that on AI anymore...
"Well, what you wanna do is go south of the border, and then down Mexico way. If you hit Managua, Nicaragua, you've gone too far."
Quote:
Originally Posted by waybacmac
Good Golly Miss Molly! I make a little joke, go away for a bit, come back and find the "Literal Web" has gone ballistic on me. Take a deep breath everyone and let it go. Just let it go.
Really...
Although individuals with Asperger syndrome acquire language skills without significant general delay and their speech typically lacks significant abnormalities, language acquisition and use is often atypical.[8] Abnormalities include verbosity, abrupt transitions, literal interpretations and miscomprehension of nuance, use of metaphor meaningful only to the speaker,auditory perception deficits, unusually pedantic, formal or idiosyncratic speech, and oddities in loudness, pitch, intonation,prosody, and rhythm.[1] Echolalia has also been observed in individuals with AS.[36]
Children with AS may have an unusually sophisticated vocabulary at a young age and have been colloquially called "little professors", but have difficulty understanding figurative language and tend to use language literally.[1] Children with AS appear to have particular weaknesses in areas of nonliteral language that include humor, irony, and teasing. Although individuals with AS usually understand the cognitive basis of humor, they seem to lack understanding of the intent of humor to share enjoyment with others.[18] Despite strong evidence of impaired humor appreciation, anecdotal reports of humor in individuals with AS seem to challenge some psychological theories of AS and autism.[37]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergers#Speech_and_language
Quote:
Originally Posted by antkm1
Here are some ideas for sizes discussed so far and my idea for a mid-sized iPad/Touch. Please excuse my poor Photo-hacking here.
After looking at all these ideas, personally, I'd take the 6" touch. Perfect for gaming, slim enough for your pants pocket. Comparable to a PSP-sized device. and maintaining the 3:2 aspect of the current iPhones for web browsing, email and reading. Actually this size is very close to the dimensions of a standard paperback book.
Discuss...(click to enlarge)
Edit: after further comments below, I reduced the bezel on the 6" iPad image to be similar to the Nook tablet and simple touch. But I kept the top/bottom bezels the same as before, which is the same as the iPhone. Personally, you would not be able to hold the 6" touch in portrait view very easily, it would only be really usable in Landscape mode. That's why I showed a more iPad-like version. for comparison. Additionally, you'd have to keep the top/bottom bezels symmetrical, and since the home button is the same size on all iOS devices (I don't see why they'd make it smaller) you couldn't get much slimmer on the bezel there.
I'd take the 7.85" (with less bezel as noted by another poster... but I'm sure Ive would make it very attractive). The 6" one would be fine as well. Anything that is smaller than the current iPad in the 6-8 inch range and has iOS (how about in between 6 and 7.85).
Quote:
Originally Posted by antkm1
Here are some ideas for sizes discussed so far and my idea for a mid-sized iPad/Touch. Please excuse my poor Photo-hacking here.
After looking at all these ideas, personally, I'd take the 6" touch. Perfect for gaming, slim enough for your pants pocket. Comparable to a PSP-sized device. and maintaining the 3:2 aspect of the current iPhones for web browsing, email and reading. Actually this size is very close to the dimensions of a standard paperback book.
Discuss...(click to enlarge)
Edit: after further comments below, I reduced the bezel on the 6" iPad image to be similar to the Nook tablet and simple touch. But I kept the top/bottom bezels the same as before, which is the same as the iPhone. Personally, you would not be able to hold the 6" touch in portrait view very easily, it would only be really usable in Landscape mode. That's why I showed a more iPad-like version. for comparison. Additionally, you'd have to keep the top/bottom bezels symmetrical, and since the home button is the same size on all iOS devices (I don't see why they'd make it smaller) you couldn't get much slimmer on the bezel there.
Better than the 6-inch Touch would be a 5-inch version because then you would retain the portability that is the current Touch's reason for being.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
"Well, what you wanna do is go south of the border, and then down Mexico way. If you hit Managua, Nicaragua, you've gone too far."
It was Fiesta and we were so gay...
I hear that Managua, Nicaragua is a "Wonnafull, Wonnaful" town :}
There, that that's two more things for the thread jackers!
Quote:
Originally Posted by waybacmac
Good Golly Miss Molly! I make a little joke, go away for a bit, come back and find the "Literal Web" has gone ballistic on me. Take a deep breath everyone and let it go. Just let it go.
Really...
Hey... AI loves your comment. Anything to get people amped on the weekend.
I've said it before. AI has to find at least 2 controversial topics for the slow news weekend to up the clicks... and you've inadvertently done the work for them.
Quote:
Originally Posted by JerrySwitched26
Although individuals with Asperger syndrome acquire language skills without significant general delay and their speech typically lacks significant abnormalities, language acquisition and use is often atypical.[8] Abnormalities include verbosity, abrupt transitions, literal interpretations and miscomprehension of nuance, use of metaphor meaningful only to the speaker,auditory perception deficits, unusually pedantic, formal or idiosyncratic speech, and oddities in loudness, pitch, intonation,prosody, and rhythm.[1] Echolalia has also been observed in individuals with AS.[36]
Children with AS may have an unusually sophisticated vocabulary at a young age and have been colloquially called "little professors", but have difficulty understanding figurative language and tend to use language literally.[1] Children with AS appear to have particular weaknesses in areas of nonliteral language that include humor, irony, and teasing. Although individuals with AS usually understand the cognitive basis of humor, they seem to lack understanding of the intent of humor to share enjoyment with others.[18] Despite strong evidence of impaired humor appreciation, anecdotal reports of humor in individuals with AS seem to challenge some psychological theories of AS and autism.[37]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergers#Speech_and_language
ya don fool me wid dem big words, sonny. I've 'ad plenty uf den asperses. jest luv 'em with cheese saurce ;-)
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Originally Posted by JeffDM
The population of the American continents long predates Ericson's voyage, so he couldn't have been the discoverer either.
I wasn't going to post this, being in Wikipedia and all, but since you did:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
"The United States of America (commonly called the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States)"
What a great "rathole" this thread's become.....
I don't think anyone's noted that Columbus didn't think he'd discovered "America," or any NEW continent - or continents. He wasn't looking to discover a new PLACE at all, rather a route to an existing place to make trade with China and the far East easier. So he thought he was in Asia. (Note: He and his men after all may never have seen many or any Asians, maybe only sketches or verbal descriptions, and the indigenous population did have some of those characteristics.)
And as the Spanish gov't set up HQ in Hispanola, realizing over time, this was clearly not Asia, the new continents were later named after map-maker Amerigo Vespucci - who may not in fact have really deserved the credit - so the "re-discovery" and the whole name "America" is the result of a number of errors and accidents.
Meanwhile, North America was only distinguished as a separate area after South America had been known to Spain for a bit.
"The earliest known use of the name America for this landmass dates from April 25, 1507, where it was used for what is now known as South America."
"It first appears on a small globe map with twelve time zones, together with the largest wall map made to date, both created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in France. These were the first maps to show the Americas as a land mass separate from Asia.
An accompanying book, Cosmographiae Introductio, anonymous but apparently written by Waldseemüller's collaborator Matthias Ringmann,[25] states, "I do not see what right any one would have to object to calling this part [that is, the South American mainland], after Americus who discovered it and who is a man of intelligence, Amerigen, that is, the Land of Americus, or America: since both Europa and Asia got their names from women". Americus Vespucius is the Latinized version of the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, and America is the feminine form of Americus. Amerigen is explained as Amerigo plus gen, the accusative case of the Greek word for 'earth', and meaning 'land of Amerigo'.[25] (See etymology.) Amerigo itself is an Italian form of the medieval Latin Emericus (see also Saint Emeric of Hungary), which through the German form Heinrich (in English, Henry) derived from the Germanic name Haimirich.[26]
Vespucci was apparently unaware of the use of his name to refer to the new landmass, as Waldseemüller's maps did not reach Spain until a few years after his death.[25] Ringmann may have been misled into crediting Vespucci by the widely published Soderini Letter, a sensationalized version of one of Vespucci's actual letters reporting on the mapping of the South American coast, which glamorized his discoveries and implied that he had recognized that South America was a continent separate from Asia; in fact, it is not known what Vespucci believed on this count, and he may have died believing what Columbus had, that they had reached the East Indies in Asia rather than a new continent.[27] Spain officially refused to accept the name America for two centuries, saying that Columbus should get credit, and Waldseemüller's later maps, after he had ceased collaboration with Ringmann, did not include it; however, usage was established when Gerardus Mercator applied the name to the entire New World in his 1538 world map. Acceptance may have been aided by the "natural poetic counterpart" that the name America made with Asia, Africa, and Europa.[25]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas [emphasis supplied] And otherwise we might be debating "North and South Columbia."
Today's "Native Americans" may not have been the original human discoverers either. The earliest "Paleo-Americans" - once thought to be the Clovis people in some theories (centered on North America) - may predate them by some thousands of years and may have died out before or during a later influx of the people we know today as "NAs." This could tie in with an (unconfirmed but not rejected) theory of a semi-massive meteorite strike in the northwest of North America - which may have helped lead to the extinction of many large North American fauna about 11,000 years ago, meaning those folks may have had a severe game shortage or been otherwise effected themselves. But much evidence has accumulated since this was proposed. Including genetic evidence of European type genes many (perhaps 10's of thousands of) years before Columbus or Ericsson. Some theories also talk about migrations of mammoth hunters to account for this.
"The archeological evidence suggests that the Paleo-Indians' first "widespread" habitation of America occurred during the end of the last glacial period or, more specifically, what is known as the late glacial maximum, around 16,500–13,000 years ago.[3]"
"The chronology of migration models is currently divided into two general approaches.[4][5] The first is the short chronology theory with the first movement beyond Alaska into the New World occurring no earlier than 15,000 – 17,000 years ago, followed by successive waves of immigrants.[6][7] The second belief is the long chronology theory, which proposes that the first group of people entered the hemisphere at a much earlier date, possibly 21,000–40,000 years ago,[8][9] with a much later mass secondary wave of immigrants.[10][11][12]"
"Pre-Clovis sites uncovered from 1973 to 1978 Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Pennsylvania site indicated occupancy as early as 16,000 years ago and possibly as long as 19,000 years ago. Dates in excess of 19,000 years have been claimed for the deepest occupation layer uncovered"
"Clovis theory – People were living near Clovis, New Mexico where tools from this era were found in the 1930s. This find gave rise to the widely held "Clovis First" theory that people spread through the Americas only after the Ice Age.[48]The Clovis culture was believed replaced by several more localized regional cultures, such as the Folsom tradition, from the time of the Younger Dryas cold climate period."
Much more on this at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_the_Americas
From which I deduce the new machine will be 7.85", assembled "in the Americas" and keep Android (and the Nook/Fire forks of same) from getting too well-established too soon where they could move up the food chain to the 10" range. And the new UI's for the slightly altered ergonomics will be code-named "Clovis." Until a giant meteor strike resurrects the Spanish Armada.
It's only logical.......