Talk:USA-amerikansk

USA and amerikansk?
Is this any use? Is there any other type of American, apart from USA-American? I don't have any dictionary show this word. I suggest deletion of this article... -- Pbb 19:02, 6 March 2006 (UTC)


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 * Why delete? It seems to be a valid Norwegian alternate spelling, that is specific to the USA (not all the Americas.)  --Connel MacKenzie T C 18:54, 6 March 2006 (UTC)


 * You were too quick, I was about to...
 * I've been checking many Norwegian dictionaries, and still haven't found a single one that mentions USA-amerikansk. Nordamerikansk, however, is mentioned in most of them. -- Pbb 19:02, 6 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Seems pretty distinct from Nordamerikansk, in that Mexico and Canada are included in one and not the other. Right?  --Connel MacKenzie T C 19:20, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Reference
I added a reference to an external website, so people can verify the usage of the word. This word seems to be only used in Norway. -- Pbb 20:33, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

USA-amerikansk
I am a Norwegian native speaker, and this Norwegian term looks quite artificial to me. At best it's a neologism, however, I cannot find but a very few web references to its actually being used. __meco 17:01, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Btw., there was a discussion about this on the article's talk page, however, I believe that the tentative conclusion from it is untenable. __meco 17:28, 16 May 2007 (UTC)


 * It was added by User:Jon Harald Søby, an admin of the Norwegian Wiktionary and a native speaker of Norwegian. I don’t know how often he visits this page, but you should discuss this with him. —Stephen 16:12, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

It is not very common at all, but it is accepted by Språkrådet (the Norwegian Language Council); see Jon Harald Søby 09:48, 18 May 2007 (UTC)


 * struck Cynewulf 22:01, 24 June 2007 (UTC)