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minus-squareCuddlyCassowary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down9·11 days agoPope Francis was from S. America, so technically this is not the first American pope.
minus-squarePunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·11 days agoQuick question: what is the demonym (a word used to identify people who are from a particular place) of the people from the USA?
minus-squareCitizenKong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down2·11 days agoUS-American, often abbreviated to just American.
minus-squareTikiporch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-210 days agoIn the opposite way that when saying Asians no one thinks of Russians, no one thinks of Chileans when you say Americans.
minus-squareScivolemulo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 days agoI think “US-American” is the most accurate, least controversial, and most grammatically correct one there is 😅
minus-squareBambiDiego@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·11 days agoAccording to English speakers who didn’t understand the proper meaning of words like “continent,” it’s “Americans.” It’s stuck around now though. According to most other languages and nations who use more accurate descriptors, it’s closer to “Statesman.” You know, people from the ‘United States’
minus-squareCapricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 days agoPersonally I’d say Statesian than Statesman, but it is the same thing
minus-squarelemmyman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·11 days agoHere in Murica the colloquial meaning of an unqualified “America” is “the United States of America” its just the way we speak ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Pope Francis was from S. America, so technically this is not the first American pope.
Quick question: what is the demonym (a word used to identify people who are from a particular place) of the people from the USA?
US-American, often abbreviated to just American.
In the opposite way that when saying Asians no one thinks of Russians, no one thinks of Chileans when you say Americans.
I think “US-American” is the most accurate, least controversial, and most grammatically correct one there is 😅
According to English speakers who didn’t understand the proper meaning of words like “continent,” it’s “Americans.” It’s stuck around now though.
According to most other languages and nations who use more accurate descriptors, it’s closer to “Statesman.” You know, people from the ‘United States’
Personally I’d say Statesian than Statesman, but it is the same thing
Here in Murica the colloquial meaning of an unqualified “America” is “the United States of America” its just the way we speak ¯\_(ツ)_/¯