In a message dated 10/12/2015 4:39:53 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes in a different thread:
"I don't believe that cultural tradition is fixed for all time. Don't the
people living in Italy today trace their decent from ancient Rome and
can one see any of that Rome in them today? The same can be asked about
Greece. Time erodes cultural traditions, but it doesn't do it quickly.
It seems too soon to welcome a European superstate."
Well, when was the first time that Romans started to call themselves
Europeans?
When was the first time they started to call themselves Italians? (Some
still don't!)
The uses of "European" should prove that one implicature or two are in
play!
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