[Koha] Fwd: RFP: 3rd NAKUG/KohaNA meeting

[Paul A]

At 04:42 PM 11/19/2015 -0600, glaws wrote:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America -> With respect, in turn,
>the right hand column specifically says "Countries 23", with a link to
>those 23:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_North_America.
>
>The list of 45 includes territories.

"territories"? "sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_North_America"?

Linguistic pecadillo?

Koha North America User's Group ==> Koha USA User's Group

As a Canadian, I'm out of this conversation.

Paul



>Greg
>-------------------------------------
>
>On 11/19/2015 04:32 PM, Paul A wrote:
> > At 03:40 PM 11/19/2015 -0600, glaws wrote:
> >> Concession: there is sometimes, and possibly in this case, the tendency
> >> to equate North America (23 countries per Wikipedia) with the United
> >> States. That is more a careless, linguistic peccadillo, I suggest, than
> >> a felony warranting a call-to-arms.
> >
> > Very respectfully, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America> lists
> > 45 countries (colourful table about 20% down the page)[1] including
> > what "old-fashioned me" used to call "Central America" and "the
> > Caribbean." North America is, at the very least, Canada, the USA, St
> > Pierre et Miquelon and Greenland.
> >
> > The phrase "Koha North America User's Group would like to invite
> > agencies and libraries located within the United States to host its
> > third annual meeting" is *NOT* a "linguistic peccadillo", it is an
> > explicitly discriminatory invitation.
> >
> > Paul
> > [1] Including, btw, La Navasse which is seen by most historians as an
> > anomalous US land-grab under the Guano Islands Act of 1856 which
> > allows the US President to "consider as appertaining to the United
> > States" any piece of real estate covered in ... guano.
> >
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