America is the name of a whole continent. United States of America means that the United States belongs to America and NOT that America belongs to the United States. So, next time you want to refer to The United States of America, you can do it as U.S. or the States or whatever you want but not as only America. Gotcha?
Here we will show you some wrong and correct uses of the term America:
Please, note that this page in not about demonyms (gentilics) but about the way to call a country.
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Let the world know that USA should not be called America! America is one whole continent.
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How about we say this:
North America has 3 regions;
United States ("of America"). Grammar for logical. America is not in Asia or Africa. Just as I would say "European Union", of course it is in Europe. When we speak we define things the way the grammar indicates!. Why would somebody name a country this way?, why is it that you break its own rule to make it a fit to a country?
That is disrespecting English Grammar.
Unless English is meant to be this way but coherently NOT!.
It just feels stupid, and makes us stupid when discussing about a topic like this.
We get mad and it becomes a problem.
Is it our fault?, NO, IT WAS OTHER PEOPLE FAULTS BUT WE HAVE TO TAKE IT. It just makes me STUPID and I do not like it.
3 Regions.
Canada adopted a name.
United States remain regions because its name still says it "United States"
Mexico adopted a name.
So are you a citizen of The United States?
you are a citizen of those "States" that are in the center between Mexico and Canada.
Those "United States" are unified with agreements. They have their own rules.
It is assumed that Those States because they became "United" are a whole country as one.
Thanks for reading!
Thanks Mrs. Saris Maria for your clear explanation and opinions.
Another thing wrong is about the country name itself.
It is not logical that you would take words from grammars to name a country.
United States is a referral to a location and not a proper name.
The word United "Statian" is bending the grammar to make it a proper name.
United States fits more into a sub-name to refer to certain locations.
United States of what? Mexico or Brasil?, perhaps Canada?.
Or United States of China?
or United States of Asia?
It is a country with a unfinished terminology.
You just could not name it United States because other countries already have United States follow by their proper name (example: United States of Mexico).
And grammar is not mathematics where because someone already have United States as a name the other would have to be "United States 2" (or proper name instead of the "2").
and most of "US Citizens" would say that they are "American" and we automatically need to understand that they are from "The USA"? Noo.
Nothing wrong saying that you are American, what is wrong is the ignorance of you accepting that I have to assume that you are from the "United States".
Colonists didn't want anything with the Europeans/English so they adopted the name of the new world in which they were in thus, AMERICA. They embraced the new world and left the old world. This is not a change of language but a change of ownwership. They wanted to be free from the Europeans and especially the British Crown. This was their move to adopt the name of the continent and shake off anything to do with "British" especially a name. As they were known to be the "British Colonies" they wanted that label to be done with and start their new freedom embracing the place they were in which was the land of America. This is my opinion, nothing to do with facts, is something to do with having read history and making my own conclusion. Which I am allowed to say.
Europeans Explorers found a new landmass, Amerigo Vespuccio, a mariner and cartographer, travels around the new world and writes about it. Martin Waldseemuller draws a new map of the world, Ringmmann writes about the new world and gives it a name. Others follow suit with this map. The map is accepted and hangs all over in European Universities. Others make new maps of their own. The new world, including the north is now known as America. Europeans colonize America. British colonies settled in America. (noticed where they settled, not in Parias), Spain, France, the Dutch, Portugal etc. have presence in the new world, America. The English Colonies wanted to separate from the English Crown and so they worked towards their independence, through war, etc. The colonies adopted the name of "United Colonies of America" then they changed to "United States of America". So, how did America come into the picture? Because they were in the continent of America?
The Stupid David expressing his best explanations and being great at insulting a lady, Mrs. Saris Maria would never get offended because she already knows that you are stupid.
You as a stupid were looking at a German Map.
German people could name the word "America" in whatever their language America gets translated for.
The same with Asian people, I am sure not everyone in the word would say your stupid name as "David", look at my name, it is spelled "Dave" and pronounced also different but you still stupid.
Keep researching, it helps your brain and wellbeing.
There are so many languages in this world that it does not even matter what our proper names are unless you belong to a civilized community.
There are people who does not know where America, Africa, Europe, Asia or Oceania is and guess what? that is totally Okay, they are beautiful how they are.
You are beautiful being stupid!
Your research is digging deeper into other people ideas, your sources are from other people ideas.
Why don't you also look into other people languages to see how they describe the entire world for them?, you would not do it because you would not understand anything unless you learn their language, then once you learn their language (which makes you a smart person) you could become downgrade back to stupid and start arguing with them about America.
This is my own opinion, I do not need to go and research to be clear about this.
Again, "United States" is more about a composition and sub-name than an actual proper name.
Canada never did this, Mexico neither, they chose to have a Unique proper name just like any other country does.
You seem not to understand and that is why I call you stupid.
I know that all your research has sources with facts, I am not saying that you are wrong but your lack of understanding our clear opinions makes you the best ignorant.
RESEARCH, THINK, STOP LYING, AND POST LINKS TO FACTS, PAYASOS.
Mrs. Roda Saris Anonymous (a.k.a. Misses the Obvious and Mrs. Obvious) wrote:
Are you now denying that you are for "Parias" as the name given to the part where the U.S. is now? You yourself have been advocating this for the longest time here on this forum. Or is it that you think one way one day and then another the next day???
I educated you about Parias for several reasons. First, it is a relevant and interesting fact. Second, for anyone who believes the obviously ridiculous notion of the Etymological Fallacy, the fact of Parias means that your preferred definition of ‘America’ would also be incorrect because it isn’t the first definition of the name. Of course, your preferred definition isn’t incorrect because the Etymological Fallacy is total BS. Third, and closely related, the fact of Parias shows that your preferred definition of ‘America’ represents a change from the original meaning of the word. So if it is wrong to use ‘America’ to refer to the US because it is a change from the original meaning, then it is also wrong to use ‘America’ to refer to all of the Americas, because it is a change from the original meaning. Of course, neither of these ways of using ‘America’, or any of the other ways of using the word, is actually incorrect.
I am only “for” Parias in the sense that I accept it as a fact. Unlike you, I am not “against” facts just because I don’t like them. I don’t pretend and lie and write completely ridiculous BS, as you do, just because I don’t like certain facts. I don’t deny reality like you regularly do.
How does the fact of the meaning of Parias mean that I “have to” call the US either ‘Parias’ or ‘the United States of Parias’? Spoiler alert: it doesn’t. Similarly, you don’t “have to” call North America ‘Parias’ just because it used to be called that. What don’t you understand about this, you simpleton?
How does my pointing out the existence of the name ‘Parias’ mean that I “have to” use that name today? Spoiler alert: it doesn’t. The things that words and names refer to can and do change over time. For a brief period of time ‘Parias’ was used to refer to North America. The name fell out of use quite quickly and nowadays almost nobody has even heard of the name. I didn’t learn of the name until a few years ago. I looked at the Waldseemuller map and saw that North America is indeed labeled as ‘Parias’. You didn’t know about ‘Parias’ until I educated you about it. You are most welcome. I don’t use the name ‘Parias’ for North America or the US because nobody uses it in this way. The purpose of communication is to make yourself understood, so why would I use a name that pretty much nobody understands? THINK, PAYASA.
You are wrong. I have see the word "Parias" long ago even before finding this forum. You did not educate me, sorry are your hurt?
That makes your lies and misrepresentations even worse. You just admitted that you deny facts that don’t support your BS “arguments”. Typical.
I think you are mixing other people's opinions with mine. You are confused!
While watching the previous Miss Universe, a global TV Program about the wonderful beauties of the world, it was disgusting to listen one of the stupid lady who was watching as well say -"why is she speaking in spanish?" when referring to the Puerto Rican Model representing the USA.
She is another stupid ignorant just like the stupid David.
The TV program was not even hosted in America, why should she speak in english?
Not if even though the TV Pogram had been hosted in America, or more specifically, in the "United States" should she speak english, that is not even the official language.
As always, I never said anything to her because she is a stupid ignorant, she felt pleasure saying such a disgusting comment, she is from the United States, another stupid ignorant belonging to our society.
United States of Mexico of America
United States of what? of America
Puerto Rico of America
United States of Brasil of America
United States of Canada of America
It is so obvious that they are in America.
That is why Mexico chose a proper name to its country, they say they are mexican.
If you are from the United States, why would you say "I am american"?, should I assumed that you are from the United States if you speak English?, or maybe Canada?, No I would not assume so broohh.
The trend now is that you are United Statian (now we have to bend the grammar and make it a proper name when the word "State" is part of a regular vocabulary, the word "statian" would never be used anywhere unless it is when naming someone from the "United States").
The United States has no official language anyway, so I would it be that they even have a unfinished name as a country?, maybe that is why they chose not to have a proper name.
correction:
The United States has no official language anyway, so how would it be that they even have an unfinished name as a country?, maybe that is why they chose not to have a proper name.
The states were not united but then they got united. Now they are united, GREAT! The United States!
Maybe they meant to have a nice sub-name something like "United Kingdom".
The Continent is one, and the name is America. North, South and Central are subregions or subcontinents of the one continent America.
And, as you well know, other people see it differently. Your way of defining the continents is not the only correct one just because it is what you learned as a kid and what you prefer. You know that there is no proof that your conception of the continents is the only correct one. You know that there is no proof that the other conceptions of the continents are wrong. The various conceptions are simply different. None of them are wrong. You don’t have to consider the Americas to be two continents, and nobody has to consider the Americas to be one continent. What don’t you understand about this? Why do you keep pretending that there is some proof somewhere that shows that only your conception of the continents is correct? Just grow up and accept that there are people who see things differently than you do, and that they are not wrong for doing so.
“Just grow up and accept that there are people who see things differently than you do, and that they are not wrong for doing so.”
This is what you demand of your Straw Man Ignorant American (see Straw Man Fallacy) that you pretend to argue against. You demand that he learn, acknowledge, and adopt your conventions, perspectives, definitions, viewpoints, narratives, etc., yet you do none of this in return. That is extremely hypocritical.
Notice how I never write that your word use is incorrect. That’s because it isn’t incorrect. It is different in some ways from how I and many others often use the words, but that in no way makes it incorrect. It is just different. Different doesn’t mean wrong. This applies equally to your usage, my usage, and everyone’s usage. Your not liking a certain usage doesn’t make it wrong.
You don’t have to fabricate fake rules of language and then pretend that they are being broken. You don’t have to pretend that people don’t use words to mean certain things just because you don’t like the usage. You don’t have to pretend that the supposed rules and conventions of your language, or any language, determine how English, or any language, “should” be spoken. Words don’t just mean what you want them to mean. You don’t exclusively control how words are used in your native language or any language. You aren’t the arbiter. You determine nothing. All of this is so obvious, yet you seem to understand none of it.
Of course I noticed that other people have a different view of America. However, you yourself admitted that it is the name given to the continent (new world) by Waldseemuller and so its origins are what is mostly accepted. What happened next? That the U.S. took the name of the continent is debatable. Why is debatable? Due to the fact that the origins have not been changed, that the continent is still one continent and its name is America. The fact that the others, English speaking countries especially, have changed to a different model of America by dividing it into two (and yet they still can't tell where Central America falls in, either their North America Continent or their South American continent) continents. The only explanation I gather is that they needed the name "America" to be available and free so that the U.S. could continue using it and making it their own through the spread of its usage as such.
Provide the origin of the name America for the USA and where did it come from and you will find yourself in a bind due to the fact that the name came from the continent of America which was named after Amerigo Vespuccio. This is a fact. However, there is no evidence that the U.S. took a name for itself and that the name came from somewhere else, such as a river, indigenous place, hero, which is where names usually come from. The USA took the name of the continent in which it stood and was in. Unless the English settlers and the born in the colonies knew nothing about the continent of America, then how do you explain they adopted the name "America" and where did they get it from? Only if they were dumb and stupid that they did not know the land/continent they were in, and that it was called America one can excuse their actions but they were not stupid and they knew exactly where they were and how that place was called because we read it throughout history. read it!