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onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 year agoYeah, lemme edit it. USAian kids
Comment on Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app
onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 year agoYeah, lemme edit it. USAian kids
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
The correct term for that is American by the way, not USAian.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yeah, I mean I totally get the annoyance of American being overloaded for both US person and of the American continents, but USAian ain’t the solution lol that kind of sucks (hard to say, no history to it, etc)
onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 year ago
Give me a term less ambiguous than “American” and I might use it.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
American is pretty unambiguous. What are you getting it mixed up with? No one else uses it. If you hear American, do you have to run through a list of other countries asking them which they are from? Of not, it’s unambiguous.
You could argue that it shouldn’t be the pronoun for a US citizen, but that’s a different argument than it being ambiguous.
IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Chile is American
SaltySalamander@kbin.social 1 year ago
Chile citizens are called Chileans.
IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Chileans, Californians, Texans, New Yorkers, Minnesotans, Britich Columbians, Guatemalans…all Americans
onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 year ago
No thanks. The USA doesn’t represent all of North and South America.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I never said it does. I just said it’s the correct word. It’s not confusing or ambiguous. Only one country uses it. It also does represent multiple states in the americas, hence the name.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 year ago
If that’s the correct word to you, fine, use it. I won’t. Just because one country assumes it can be eponymous with not just one, but two entire continents, doesn’t make it right, nor do I have to agree with it.