I dunno, I quite like it's pithyness as it is ^_^ --Tsunami
This term should be expunged from the language. The North American language has now moved so far away from anything resembling English, that I feel it should now be officially renamed "American". That way, English speakers no longer have to feel embarrassed about having any connection with the abortion that is the North American language. --Tsunami
Your case is proved of course by the way that your paragraph there would be utterly incomprehensible to a speaker of American English.