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Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by nl on Sunday October 20, 2013 @05:53AM (#6579416)
I'm married to a Britisher (which is not used in Great Britan anyway) sounds similarly awkward. Married to an Englishman/Welshman/Irishman works, but is gender (and England/Wales/Ireland) specific.

I'm married to a Scott works though.

Not sure there is a general purpose word you can use to say "I'm married to someone from Britian".

Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by UntitledNo4 on Sunday October 20, 2013 @08:32AM (#6579692)
To a Scot, unless your husband's name is Scott, in which case I apologise for making assumptions.
Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by DanBC on Sunday October 20, 2013 @05:56AM (#6579420)
"I'm married to a Briton". That sounds weird.

(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...)

Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by threedaymonk on Sunday October 20, 2013 @09:38AM (#6579855)
Briton is widely used in Britain, e.g. in news articles: "Tokyo destroyed by giant reptile, 3 Britons feared dead"
Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by m_mueller on Sunday October 20, 2013 @11:41AM (#6580215)
Great parody about the media coverage of 3-11 there.
Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by alexeisadeski3 on Sunday October 20, 2013 @07:01AM (#6579538)
Disagree.
Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by smcl on Sunday October 20, 2013 @05:59AM (#6579425)
"I"m married to a Brit"
Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by chongli on Sunday October 20, 2013 @06:57AM (#6579526)
Too bad you can't do the same trick with Japanese; it's become politically incorrect (even racist) to use the word "Jap".
Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by po on Sunday October 20, 2013 @08:23AM (#6579672)
What's amusing is that in Japan many Japanese are totally unaware of the political incorrectness of it. In Japan I sometimes hear people use 'Jap' as slang, in store or product names, or just in normal language by extension of how other countries are abbreviated in english. In a country that is mostly japanese, it just loses its racist power.
Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by smcl on Sunday October 20, 2013 @09:19AM (#6579796)
Is there a proper word to describe this? For example:

* "Jim is British" - "British" is the demonym

* "Jim is a Brit" - "Brit" is the ____

I'm not sure what the correct google search term would be to find out this.

Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by epo on Sunday October 20, 2013 @07:31AM (#6579589)
My $partner is Japanese/British/American ...
Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by asksol on Sunday October 20, 2013 @07:29AM (#6579583)
"My wife is from Britain", "My husband is British" ? Maybe these are now archaic
Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by guard-of-terra on Sunday October 20, 2013 @09:00AM (#6579758)
"From" no longer implies ethnicity and may even not imply culture.