ISO 8601
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No, I'm American. It looks like you started writing this comment before I made the edit to mine, so I'll go ahead and copy/paste it here
a) "American" as a demonym for literally anyone in the western hemisphere is largely useless, b) the USA is the only country which includes "America" in its name, and c) USian is not more precise because there are two countries with United States in their name.
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So, you are a USian. I thought so. I never ever heard someone saying "February 27th 2018", I think only USians do that. Everywhere else it is 27th of February 2018 which is logical.
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No, I'm American, and I just gave you three good reasons to stop using "USian," not the least of which being that "US" is not exclusive to the United States of America. Are people from the
United States of MexicoUnited Mexican States USians as well?I don't have the audacity to try and force a different demonym onto you, please don't do that to me.
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No, I'm American
I have no doubt you are an American as much as people from Mexico, Venezuela or Brazil are Americans. The same as people from Germany, Spain or Italy are Europeans.
United States of Mexico
There is no such thing.
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Mexico's name is the United Mexican States.
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I know. He apparently doesn't but that doesn't surprise me - USians are usually ignorant about anything outside of their borders.
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The United Mexican States. They still have United States in their name. Notably, they don't have America in their name, just like every single other country besides the USA. So when we're talking about the demonym for a particular country, "American" is the one for people in the USA, just like how "Mexican" is the one for people in the United Mexican States.
Also notably, they live on an entirely different continent from Venezuela and Brazil. Mexicans and Americans are North American, as opposed to Venezuelans and Brazilians who are South American. Lumping these continents together makes as much sense as lumping Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia together. But I know you aren't trying to make sense, you're just trying to get under Americans' skin, so I'm gonna ignore you now
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I was always curious why USians have issue with them being called USians. America is a continent. You know, like Europe.
Let's assume some nation of halfwits creates a country named United States of Earth and will be insistent that since they are the only ones with Earth in country name, they are the only ones to be called Earthlings.
We would laugh at these halfwits, wouldn't we? 🤣
But it is good to see you at least acknowledged your ignorance of geography.
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I guess I'm back to make fun of you
South America is a different continent
West British schools must really skimp on geography. American schools aren't much better, but at least we know there are seven continents (six, if you consider Eurasia a single continent)
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Wrong again. They may be teaching you that In Anglosphere perhaps, but even USians surely must know continents are not really defined?
While the U.S. teaches that there are seven continents, Europe teaches that there are only six, with North and South America counting as one consolidated America.
https://theweek.com/science/continents-science-north-america-europe
Yes dear USian, brain blowing, isn't it? 🤣
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As long as we're being pedantic bitches, there's actually anywhere between four and seven, depending on how you define it. Not my fault European schools teach you wrong too
Given that continents are generally ill-defined, do you reckon maybe we should simply... ask the people who live there what they want to be called?
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Like in my example with halfwits from United States of Earth demanding to be called Earthlings? 🤣
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I mean, yeah, if a) it was the linguistic norm to call them Earthlings, and b) it was not a linguistic norm to call anyone else on Earth an Earthling. It's not really analogous to the USA, given that no one else uses the demonym American, and everyone knows who you're talking about when you say American
At some point you got to read back through this conversation and think "man, I came off really fucking aggressive because someone said a date differently from how I do, this makes me look like a complete twat"
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