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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UNITED STATER
America and US America
Well asked:
https://totalcolombia.com/4706ba/Better_for_United_Statians_Really
United Statian in Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=0&q=%22united+statian%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5
"Close encounters of the third kind" (Ab. "Close encounters"
"Credence Clearwater Revival" (Ab. "Credence")
"The United States of America" (Ab. "United States" or "The States" or "America")
You just could leave because in reality you are not contributing to nothing, even you are dragging people with this kind of crab mentality.
"America" is not ab for "United States of America"
There is a recent twitter thread that compare what is Asia and what is not and it seem US people didn't know that Asia is not only China, SK and Japan.
And also many people did the same with what is America and what is not.
https://twitter.com/seeelix1/status/1372098146289868805
América = the Americas
americano = Pan American
Los Estados Unidos de América = Estados Unidos o America
estadounidense = American
Done!
Lol! What do you mean by saying Donate?
If you are from Argentina, why would you say ... United States of America is both United States and America for their abbreviation or the short version?
I would like to fix up what you said ...
America = The Americas = Pan America
American = Pan American = All people or things of the Americas
United States of America = USA = U.S.America = United States = The States
United States Demonym = United Statesian = U.S.American = United States Citizen
Its done
I believe that they commit an excess when they abbreviate "The United States of America" as "America", when they could have done "US America". After all there is South Africa and they too have the name of the continent in their name, but not just calling themselves Africa.
¿sabían que el fútbol americano no lo llaman así en Estados Unidos? Ellos lo llaman simplemente football, decirle American (estadounidense) es lo que empezaron a hacer los ingleses para diferenciarlo del deporte que ellos habian creado.
Esos patrocinan la ignorancia también
Esta página exagera, no es que ellos crean que su país se llama América, decir América es informal, además le dicen más veces "Estados Unidos" que América si contamos las veces que dicen "US"
Muchos estadounidenses sí se lo creen, compañero. Otros saben que no es correcto y aun así lo hacen. Si te mueves en un ambiente internacional lo notas y te molestas aún más.
¿Informal? Informalmente sus políticos se llaman americanos a todo dar en sus conferencias y sus propias cadenas televisivas lo retransmiten en todos los continentes. Busca un poquito más y verás cómo también traducen sus películas a español como les gusta. ¿Qué te parece?
Que algunos lo crean no significa que todos lo crean, y el uso de "American" es una apropiación al interior de su idioma, nosotros en el nuestro no lo permitimos creando la palabra "estadounidense"
Muy bien, no lo permitas Tomás! Mucha falta de respeto por parte de esos norteamericanos.