Indeed, U.S.A. is not America!
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?
How should I use the term America then?
Here we will show you some wrong and correct uses of the term America:
This is how we do it in America.
This is how we do it in the States.
- America is my country and I love it.
- The United States is my country and I love it.
- America lost the Vietnam war.
- U.S.A. lost the Vietnam war.
- Here in America we love Mc Donald's.
- Here in the U.S. we love Mc Donald's.
Please, note that this page in not about demonyms (gentilics) but about the way to call a country.
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This is not the demonym section but it doesn't matter; A common argument against the suggestion of the demonym "United Statian" for people from the United States is that that part of the name of the country is too formal or bureaucratic to build a demonym with it, and to illustrate they mention that Great Britain did not make one with either "United Kingdom". However, this argument is another example of hypocrisy, since the demonym for the United Arab Emirates in english is "Emirati".
"Emirates" is also a formal and bureaucratic term and yet with U.A.E. They had no problem with making a demonym with that part of their name!
The author on the Demonyms Tab even said it themself “We stated on our home page that this site is not about demonyms, because of Popular Demand”.
So you are good and I agree with you that it doesn’t matter which of the 4 tabs you are commenting on about names of places and demonyms! 👍
ah ok, but once a long time ago when I also wrote about demonyms in this section, someone angrily told me that I shouldn't write it here because it wasn't the correct section.
Emiratis, Brits, and Americans can and will call themselves whatever they want. It doesn’t matter at all to the vast majority of Americans what the Emiratis call themselves. Americans are most definitely not obligated to change their demonym because of what the Emiratis call themselves.
Emiratis (or Brits) is nothing similar, when comparing it to the demonym American.
Of course, U.S. people can call themselves whatever they want, EXCLUDING AMERICAN FOR THEIR NATIONALITY. Even, Emiratis and Brits can call themselves however they want for their nationality EXCEPT EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN. Therefore, United Statesian is USA’s national demonym officially! 🙂
Of course, Americans don’t have to be obligated to change their demonym, when in fact there’s no reason for them to do so, being as they are all North and South Americans from 2 continents.
However, it’s only the U.S. residents that have to change their Inappropriate Demonym, whether they be obligated or not, because they have to care that the demonyms “Emiratis” and “Brits” are not identifying any other place bigger than the countries of United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates.
the name of the country is "The United States of America", ALL THE COMPLETE SENTENCE is the name of the country, then what is usually heard are abbreviations of this long name, for example "America", but the only OFFICIAL abbreviation is "United States" or "U.S", don't exaggerate.
It isn’t a complete sentence. Please learn some basic grammar before posting again. Thanks.
maybe you could read that basic grammar yourself, because the name of the country is that whole sentence, and then it's abbreviated, another example is "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", but officially abbreviated as "United Kingdom" and informally as "Great Britain", perhaps you should learn them before supposedly "correcting" others. Thank you
Those aren’t sentences, genius. You need to learn facts instead of pulling BS out of your a55.
Oh look at that. I’m surprised that the Stupid “David (United States)” has returned here - since his previous BS had been coming out of his a55.
Julian from Argentina is stating a fact that “United States of America” is the complete sentence and FULL NAME of the country!
Perhaps the Annoying David should learn to not send more BS against Facts on here, before posting again. Thanks!
I see that you, like Julian, have at least moderate mental retardation.
‘United States of America’ is a proper noun because it is the official name of a country. As a proper noun, it is usually not a complete sentence. For example, the name is not a complete sentence here: The United States of America borders Canada and Mexico. In that sentence, ‘United States of America’ is not a complete sentence. It is the subject of the complete sentence. It is a proper noun. Most sentences contain at least a subject and a verb. They often also have an object.
Where is the verb in ‘United States of America’? I cannot wait to read your moronic replies. Your idiocy amuses me greatly.
Obviously, United States is just one of many countries founded in America. Fact that one is indoctrinated to confuse the continental term American as if a nationality does not supersede the fact that the United States and America are not one and same.
Coming back to this forum, I think this argument could be used in more ways aswell. People from the UK are not "British", Britain is an island. Stop saying Irish, the island of Ireland is divided into two lands, say ROI Irish. Did you just try to refer to all of Europe with the EU flag? Think again! Plenty of European countries aren't in the EU! There are different solutions you could come up with these problems, like saying England or Scottish instead of British or just stop using the EU as a representation of all Europe.
According to your message, I can fix up what makes sense to everything that you are trying to get at …
1) “Coming back to this forum, this argument could be used in more ways as well.”? I can agree!
2) “People from the UK are not "British", Britain is an island.”? Well, I will say that I did read an article about the differences between UK, Britain, etc. a long time ago and the answer is: Britain is part of the island known as United Kingdom and it is meant to be the constituent countries of England and Wales only.
3) “Stop saying Irish, the island of Ireland is divided into two lands, say ROI Irish.”? Well, I will agree that the island of Ireland is divided between 2 countries, and that all residents of the “Republic of Ireland”, as well as of the “Northern Ireland” division in “United Kingdom” are Irish. But I suggest people say “R. Irish” for residents of ROI and “N. Irish” for residents of Northern Ireland.
4) “Did you just try to refer to all of Europe with the EU flag? Think again! Plenty of European countries aren't in the EU!”? Well, I haven’t tried referring to all of Europe with the EU flag myself, but I do find it stupid if any random person “says” (or uses) the European Union flag “is” (or as) the Europe(an) flag.
5) “There are different solutions you could come up with these problems, like saying England or Scottish instead of British or just stop using the EU as a representation of all Europe.”? Well, I can say there are different solutions that I could come up with for fixing those problems, like saying …
(To be continued)
(Continued from previous)
… “English” if referring to people of England only!
… “Scottish” if referring to people of Scotland only!
… “Welsh” if referring to people of Wales only!
… “Northern Irish” if referring to people of Northern Ireland only!
… “British” if referring to people of England and Wales only!
… “Great British” if referring to people of Scotland, England and Wales only!
… “United Kingdomites” if referring to people of all 4 constituent countries of the UK at once! 🙂
Finally, I will never use the EU flag as a representation for all countries of Europe, and I believe that no person should even use the EU flag as the whole continental European flag, being as that will never make sense. 👍
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LOL, I bet this is what you really said …
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The retards on r/americabad can suck my *****, stupid ***** braindead amerimutt ***** LOL
me when i'm immature
I think we should call ourselves states. Not only does it sound pretty badass but it would also resolve this whole "USA ≠ America" thingy.
If U.S. Citizens were informed and accepted the term "U.S. American," their animosity towards acknowledging the continent of America would go away because there be no need to misrepresent United States as being one and same as America.
https://tinyurl.com/TheContinentofAmerica
That doesn't relate at all to what I said but ok.
Since you have not replied to me, I will argue that you really are a resident of the Old World! 🙂
In United States and elsewhere, people have come to actually believe that they can cancel what is genuinely a gender. That they can redefine what constitutes a gender in effort to cancel out the fact that there are only two genders. Arguing that language evolved and dictates that their new set of "Facts" replace genuine facts. In hopes I guess to further the idea that people born male and female who have relations with trans women and trans men respectively are having relations with real women and men hence not homosexuals.
Delusions, bring this up only because this is nature of the U.S. led campaign against the American continent and its people. Believing that the entire world is as simpleminded as led on by most of their own population, that some how placing adjectives North, Central, South and Latin before the name America and term American confuses us and opens for them the opportunity to appropriate the continent's name America and continental term American.
Are you a resident of Europe, Asia or Africa?
The country is called "The United States of America" and is abbreviated "United States", "America", "US", "The States" and "USA".
The use for nationality of the word "American" is more difficult to defence, but in the english language the words for the continental what they use are "South American" and "North American".
LOL The U.S. led campaign against what is genuinely America and American is not compelled by the English language.
Fact is United States was founded in the continent/hemisphere named in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, America. Hence the long form name United States of America. North America/American and South America/American are to America as North Europe/Europeans are to Europe. U.S. Americans are those Americans specifically from the United States.
The desire to cancel what's genuinely America and American doesn't negate what is qualified with the adjectives North and South, America and American.
Discover what's genuinely America and American:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3290.ct007308/?r=-0.769,0,2.539,0.877,0
Discover what's genuinely America and American:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3290.ct007308/