Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?
hikaru755@feddit.de 8 months agoThis is about language, not geology. Doesn’t really matter how it came to be that way, North and South America are effectively treated as separate continents and very rarely referred to as a whole, and you saying “but actually” doesn’t change that.
HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Words can be coined. America is a continent. There, if the word didn’t exist before, it does now.
hikaru755@feddit.de 8 months ago
You’re right that words can be coined and their usage changed, but you seem to be misinformed about how that happens. You just deciding we’re gonna do it this way now is not gonna cut it, sorry