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• 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)

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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Give me a term less ambiguous than “American” and I might use it.

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    • 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.

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      • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Whatever adjective makes you feel better: appropriate, apt, fitting, correct, modest, less expansive, less assuming, less imperious, less opulent, less grandiose, less egocentric, less narcissistic

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• IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Chile is American

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  • SaltySalamander@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Chile citizens are called Chileans.

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    • IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Chileans, Californians, Texans, New Yorkers, Minnesotans, Britich Columbians, Guatemalans…all Americans

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      • Eggyhead@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The point you’re trying to make is correct on a technical level, not a functional one. Unfortunately we can’t will languages into behaving in ways we think is ideal simply by making pointless assertions in obscure forums.

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• onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No thanks. The USA doesn’t represent all of North and South America.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And I guess South African should be something else, because there are other states in southern Africa? Language doesn’t really care about being “correct” with terms. It cares about being understandable. No one knows what USAian is. Everyone knows what American is. There isn’t really any debate anywhere around what to call people from the United States of America, even among other American nations.

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