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Dennis Greene wrote: > > Bruce Anderson seems to be under the impression that I object to being > called a foreigner. He wrote: > > "But picking on the word foreigner is really pretty silly. > Here if you don't live in the U.S. you're a foreigner because.........ta > da..........you live in another country." > > which sent me scuttling back to my original posting to see where he could > have got that idea from. The only candidate I could find was that at one > point I emphasised foreign by putting it in quotation marks. My intention > was to emphasis "foreign" as opposed to "domestic" but I can see how it > could be read as objecting to "foreign". Which only goes to show that the > best placed quotation marks of PC and pen, gang oft astray (with apologies > to R. Burns). > > Please do not stop using foreigner on my account. For some years now I have > been reconciled to the fact that the US Department of Immigration has never > written to me demanding that I move to the United States. I have even got > over the fact that this means that to Americans I shall always be a > foreigner and that they shall always be foreigners to me. > > Ah-ha! I have the answer. I'll visit Mexico and swim across the Rio > Grande. That should serve to change my status from being a mere foreigner > to that of being an illegal alien. Now there's a word to conjure with. > > (With tongue firmly in cheek) > > Dennis. If you don't drown or get shot as many do-try another way. Actually Texas needs those workers and most people pay well-but I would try another way. Nita