User talk:Rodolfo Hermans/Archive01

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[edit] It seems to me

that you DELETED the following posting that I'd made about an hour after I posted it. Talk:American

I couldn't help but notice that de Tocqueville's Democracy in America was published [1830s - look it up if you need a more exact date] in French at that time as De la démocratie en Amérique suggesting that the term was used long before the United States was what it is today. The term was not dictated from a position of power but was just what the place and people were called. 175 years ago. And mostly still is today. I was amazed to see a Canadian [somewhere around here] wanting [or something] to be called an American. I saw a TV show on CBC where a film crew went all around Canada trying to find out what Canadians had in common and it all came down to ONE thing. {i quote} "We are NOT Americans". Carptrash 20:57, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

it was on a discussion page, so . . . .... shouldn't we have, you know, discused it? It is possible that I read the history of the page wrong, so, please help me out. Carptrash 22:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

My deepest apologies: Looks like you are correct , I deleted your comment at Talk:American, but it was absolutely by mistake. I actually do not understand how this happened. Should I post it again for you as a token of my gof faith? There was no bad intention at all. Thank you for pointing it out, I will be more carefully in the future. Actually I just put it back, it was my mistake, so my responsibility to solve it. Godot 23:59, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Apology accepted, and the fact that it was an accident means that you don't really have to offer it. Intention is (my opinion) what matters. And it is not as if my comment was rocket science or so compelling that it would swing anyone's POV. So thanks for putting it back and the discussion goes on. One American to another, eh? Carptrash 00:20, 4 October 2006 (UTC)