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from the godwananian river to the tethys sea
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Feb 11, 2024 22:15
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it would actually be really funny if the US made a big deal of saying you should always say "United States of America" no matter what language you're speaking
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Feb 11, 2024 22:28
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Guavanaut posted:Rûm, surely? I'll have mine in coke, thanks.
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Feb 11, 2024 22:36
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All I'm saying is if "Türkiye" somehow sticks in English, then I'm also calling the bird that.
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Feb 11, 2024 22:37
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Incredible Shrinking Pangaea.
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Feb 11, 2024 22:38
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Badger of Basra posted:it would actually be really funny if the US made a big deal of saying you should always say "United States of America" no matter what language you're speaking What is the name of the citizens of USA?, they call themselves "americans", but thats the name of the continent. It would be like chinese where calling themselves "Asians".
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Feb 11, 2024 22:41
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USAsians.
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Feb 11, 2024 22:42
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Tei posted:What is the name of the citizens of USA?, they call themselves "americans", but thats the name of the continent. It would be like chinese where calling themselves "Asians". Americans is short for "United States of America"ns. It's fine.
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Feb 11, 2024 22:44
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Tei posted:What is the name of the citizens of USA?, they call themselves "americans", but thats the name of the continent. It would be like chinese where calling themselves "Asians". it's "americans"
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Feb 11, 2024 22:45
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Is not that confusing?, Cubans, Argentinians, Mexicans, Canadian, are also americans.
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Feb 11, 2024 22:56
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I remember reading The Onion's Our Big Dumb World (which is great by the way), and the section for the Central African Republic mostly involved making fun of its generic name. I was like bitch, you come from the United States of America, glass houses
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Feb 11, 2024 22:59
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AmeriKKKans
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Feb 11, 2024 23:00
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Tei posted:Is not that confusing?, Cubans, Argentinians, Mexicans, Canadian, are also americans. I've never seen a context where it's ambiguous whether you're referring to a single country or to two continents at the same time. Referring to individual continents is easy because of the words "north" and "south". I guess some places refer to the whole thing as one continent, in which case it could maybe come up? But I think that tends to be outside of english-speaking cases -- they can use some other word for the US demonym in their language probably. Ditocoaf fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Feb 11, 2024 |
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Feb 11, 2024 23:08
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Badger of Basra posted:it would actually be really funny if the US made a big deal of saying you should always say "United States of America" no matter what language you're speaking
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Feb 11, 2024 23:09
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Tei posted:Is not that confusing?, Cubans, Argentinians, Mexicans, Canadian, are also americans. People from a hypothetical United States of Asia could call themselves Asians. Don't know what else they'd be called. I wouldn't be bothered if people from the European Union called themselves Europeans, even if the Swiss aren't part of it.
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Feb 11, 2024 23:10
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mobby_6kl posted:Everyone was successfully converted to using Kyiv instead of Kiev but now it's time for the next stage: Київ I just say Kænugarður as is good and proper.
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Feb 11, 2024 23:11
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Tei posted:Is not that confusing?, Cubans, Argentinians, Mexicans, Canadian, are also americans. when was the last time you wanted to refer to all people from the entire Americas
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Feb 11, 2024 23:18
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I always liked "Usanian".
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Feb 11, 2024 23:19
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There are options in Latin America if you want to avoid using "americans" for the people from that one country. Norteamericanos (lazy, because Canadians and Mexicans are also norteamericanos), ianques, estadounidenses...
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Feb 11, 2024 23:21
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Powered Descent posted:I always liked "Usanian". USAsian is easier to pronounce. Though I have only ever heard it from people who dislike them. Ami is also popular among older Germans. I even heard some Germans of south American descent end up using American for their parents and Ami for the US peeps.
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Feb 11, 2024 23:24
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I guess the word is yankees
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Feb 11, 2024 23:30
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yankee is ideal because it's an exonym even within its reference point
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Feb 11, 2024 23:46
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We say "Kani".
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Feb 11, 2024 23:47
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Tei posted:Is not that confusing?, Cubans, Argentinians, Mexicans, Canadian, are also americans. I get what you are going for but in real life, I was brought up calling myself US or US-american and especially now living in a country where nearly nobody speaks english or spanish, I try to make it clear And yet everyone calls me amyerikanskiy or amerikandyq. I was american in Canada. I was américain in France. I’m the only motherfucker who cares. It’s almost as if everyone knows context. E: hate to hand it to opposite America but the best word is seppo Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Feb 11, 2024 |
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Feb 11, 2024 23:52
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Yeah...I think it's standard practice almost everywhere to refer to people from the United States as 'Americans'. Apologies to everyone else from the Americas. I do usually say 'United States' rather than 'America', and this is reasonably common where I live.
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Feb 11, 2024 23:55
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It's a thing only other americans (as in from the continent) care about, and even then really just latin americans, and even then really just leftists. Personally i use "estadounidenses" in portuguese and "US people" in english, but most people in Brazil say americanos.
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Feb 11, 2024 23:59
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Frionnel posted:It's a thing only other americans (as in from the continent) care about, and even then really just latin americans, and even then really just leftists. lmao really
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Feb 12, 2024 00:01
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Not gonna give you gringos the satisfaction 
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Feb 12, 2024 00:03
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Us people, or as I like to say, we.
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Feb 12, 2024 00:32
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Tei posted:I guess the word is yankees if you want to start a fight
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Feb 12, 2024 02:30
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I've been watching the classic 1960's Twilight Zone and there's an episode where a flight to NYC is sent back in time to dinosaur times. They arrived in the Hudson river estuary and could see every NYC area landform and landmark but there just wasn't a city there. It's amazing how "new" the idea of plate tectonics is. They really didn't know that the landforms would be totally unrecognizable millions of years ago.
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Feb 12, 2024 02:35
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"seppos"
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Most people around my parts call America (US) 'jenkkilä'. Much to the delight of one American friend who moved here from Texas. Safe to say that his reactions everytime when that exonym is used only increases the usage in my friend circle, especially when drinking. But I think it is warranted, he calls me a Finn after all even if he knows perfectly well that I'm not Sami!
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Feb 12, 2024 05:49
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using yankee to refer to a confederate just makes using it all the sweeter
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Glah posted:Most people around my parts call America (US) 'jenkkilä'. Much to the delight of one American friend who moved here from Texas. Safe to say that his reactions everytime when that exonym is used only increases the usage in my friend circle, especially when drinking. But I think it is warranted, he calls me a Finn after all even if he knows perfectly well that I'm not Sami! Youre an Eastern Swede fyi.
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Feb 12, 2024 06:34
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OddObserver posted:Look, I for one sympathize with people not wanting their country confused with second-rate poultry, even if they really should have chosen a spelling outsiders can actually read. I'm not mad about the bird. Please don't put it into the UN General Assembly minutes that I got mad about the bird.
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The term for people from America = Americans The term for people from the Americas = New Worlders Badger of Basra posted:it would actually be really funny if the US made a big deal of saying you should always say "United States of America" no matter what language you're speaking
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Feb 12, 2024 07:01
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steinrokkan posted:I'm not mad about the bird. Please don't put it into the UN General Assembly minutes that I got mad about the bird. I see, this is the real reason Modi wants to use Bharat instead of India
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Ferdinand the Bull posted:Youre an Eastern Swede fyi. It's far eastern Dane actually. Also no one outside of USA cares about who is and isn't a Yankee. If you're from the area between Canada and Mexico, you're a Yankee, and that includes Alaska and Hawaii.
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