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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Citizens of the United States Collectively Change Demonym from American to United-Statian to Improve Relations with Mexican Social Media Scholars
MEXICO CITY — Overwhelmed by the abundance of complaints concerning the usage of the term American, Judith Smith, head of the (formerly American) United Statian Academy of Arts and Sciences, made an important blog post after logging off Facebook...
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By the way, you misspelled Goebbels. You clowns can’t get anything right. Typical.
that is a little bit... racist,and stupid.
Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth. That is how the United States manipulates history. There are many countries in America, no matter which language you use.
And many speakers of many languages use ‘America’ to refer to the USA. Facts are facts.
We know the means do not matter to you :D
Exactly which means? You don’t know what does and does not matter to me, simpleton.
The media's the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
As Joseph said, they only repeat the lie from generation to generation and spread it to the world. This is the way your assertions can be explained.
What lie?
Why do you call the continent "The Americas" when you accept that the continent's name is America? How did the USA get the name America?
Why are so many of you so desperate to tell us what we already know?
We know that many people think of ‘America’ and ‘América’ as all of the Americas.
We know that the continental meaning of ‘America’ and ‘América’ means that it is composed of many countries.
Why do you keep on repeating this simple fact when nobody is claiming that it is false?
Why do you act like you are winning some argument by simply stating this basic fact?
Why do you act like you are educating and correcting us by stating this obvious fact?
Why is this, besides your incessant whining and pettiness, all that you ever have to offer?
If you know all of that, why do you continue typing? if you learned the lesson, just answer to Mrs. Anonymous and you can go home. You seem unsettled.
Jesus H! How many pseudonyms do you need? Your own private fantasy consensus.
I see you are becoming lunatic David!
By the way, you misspelled Goebbels. You clowns can’t get anything right. Typical.
Glad to hear you agree. The lie has been for so long that now United Statians believe it and innocents abroad repeat it. And you are proud of that.
what linguists know (Real Academia Española) is that for a word to begin to be considered as an official denomination it absolutely depends on its USE, and I know that some young people from the community of English-speaking countries started using USAR for example "US America" (and not just "America").
So THE FUTURE will bring changes! It will be different!
People have been using United Statian for over a century and that will not shut off bunker boy's blower mouth
Why would it or should it?
Joiri Minaya (1990) is a Dominican-United Statian multi-disciplinary artist whose work navigates binaries in search of in-betweenness, investigating the female body within constructions of identity, multi-cultural social spaces and hierarchies. Recent works focus on questioning historic and contemporary representations of black and brown womanhood in relation to an imagined tropical identity from a decolonial stance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uTloEUgrTs
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Fabian, you are also entitled to create a Hollywood like industry in Argentina to brainwash people alike. However, it will take you many decades, and now it is complex because the US has taken that throne. They mastered their approaches when broadcasted a worldwide fantasy short [live?] film about going to the moon.
Considering that the major dictionaries of the English language (Cambridge and Merriam-Webster) admit that "American" still maintains the continental meaning as well as a sense of US nationality, I say this. A country called "The United States of America", not America or the United States, its name cannot be American or United Statian, it must contain ALL parts of its name, "United" (U), "States" (S) and "America" (American) = Usamerican
You are entitled to your opinion that it must. Billions of people are entitled to their opinion that it must not. We will all continue to use words as we see fit.
this is what happens when one country wants to appropriate the name of a continent, offending 30+ countries...
U.S. plummets (www.nydailynews.com)
https://bit.ly/2ZTdiEg
Hmm US publication?
So you hate everything from the US except all the stuff you love and consume in massive quantities? Makes perfect sense.
Made in China, then labeled as US. Hahahahah
I am really surprised by the amount of people celebrating this morning about Trump getting coronavirus. Oh boy, so many don't like what the US has become. They just don't say it.
You are surprised that a lot of people don’t like Trump? Have you been living under a rock for at least the last five years? Your ignorance is amazing.
Fabián wrote:
In English there are several countries that have two demonyms, such as Denmark, Danish and Dane, also Argentina, Argentinian and Argentine (this second should be used only for things but many use it for people anyway).
This is incorrect. Demonyms are nouns. ‘Dane’ is a noun and refers to a person from Denmark. ‘Danish’ is the adjectival form. ‘Danish’ is not usually a noun, unless it is referring to a type of pastry or the language of Denmark. Often in English the demonym and the adjectival form are the same. For example, Mexican and Mexican; Ethiopian and Ethiopian; and Brazilian and Brazilian. Sometimes the demonym and the adjectival form are different. For example, Englishman and English; Frenchman and French; Spaniard and Spanish; and Dane and Danish.
‘Argentine’, ‘Argentinian’, and ‘Argentinean’ can all be used as demonyms in English. They can all be used as adjectives as well. ‘Argentine’ and ‘Argentinian’ are more common than ‘Argentinean’. It is simply not true that ‘Argentine’ “...should be used only for things...”.
Fabián, please get your facts straight before posting. I don’t appreciate you wasting our time with your falsehoods. Please do us the courtesy of doing some basic research before posting. You better watch yourself. If you keep this up, I will have to place you in the same BS category as Mrs. Anonymous and Michael E. You have been warned. Thanks.
Similarly, in English, United Statian is an adjective and is also a noun. Both can be used.
Juan/Mrs. Anonymous x 7.
Look at the big brain on Juan. They said he could only report the number of upvotes and downvotes. But no, he’s branched out to piggybacking on other’s posts. No new material from him, but he’s giving us more than we ever thought he was capable of. We must applaud his special effort. He’ll be cogitating at a kindergarten level any day now. Keep up the amazing work. 5 gold stars for him!
David nene XOXO
Juan/Mrs. Anonymous x 12.
Be very careful with Dakid, Mr. Fabian. Being in the list of such dishonest is humiliating and will destroy your future. You will be blocked from having business with the US, you will appear in fake news, your company may go bankrupt, and will lose access to credit. No other country will want to deal with you, since the coming bribery will be dominant. Watch out.
Believe everything that Pelotudo tells you about bribery. Latin Americans are experts in bribery and corruption. Bribery and corruption are the sine qua non of Latin American government and business. Trump has a lot to learn from such experts.
Hey americano, métete a la guerra para que sobornes a alto nivel como Estados Unidos. Si no te alcanza imprimes más y listo
No le des mal ejemplo al pelotudo!! jajaja que después se toma en serio el ejemplo de soborno de Estados Unidos a Brazil por miedo a Huawei
Fabian, what are the demonyms for citizens of 1. Europe, 2. Asia, 3. America, 4. Oceania, 5. Africa?
David, why do you accept a one continent named America and yet you call it "The Americas"? And how did the continent go from America to The Americas? you seem to know quite a bit, but somehow you are avoiding this question. It is a very simple question.