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"American" implies it's in the USA, like if someone is described as "American", they're from the USA. European, Asian, African, Australian, North American, and
by mkl 6y ago
"American" implies it's in the USA, like if someone is described as "American", they're from the USA. European, Asian, African, Australian, North American, and South American all refer to the continent, Antarctican seems to be a similar word (without much use, unsurprisingly), but I don't think there is one for the whole Americas in English, because "American" isn't it.
- BoorishBears 6y agoSomeone is from the Americas I'm going to call them American. What say do people from the continent get anyways? They're all the same sh*thole countries anyways with corrupt leaders full of murders and rapists right? One let a TV clown run them into the ground, another is run by drug cartels, awful continent. If I, a Ghanaian, have to constantly go by "African", then the US being lumped in with Hati shouldn't be inaccurate at all. Weird you thought otherwise.
- mkl 6y agoI'm not American, or from the Americas, I'm just letting you know the meaning native English speakers will take from the word. Call non-Americans American if you want, but don't be surprised when you're misunderstood.
- BoorishBears 6y agoYou should learn the meaning of the word "facetious". And I'm not sure what makes you think I'm not a native speaker of English. Apparently you don't even understand blatant sarcasm, are you one?
- mkl 6y ago> You should learn the meaning of the word "facetious". I know it well. > And I'm not sure what makes you think I'm not a native speaker of English. You apparently don't know the definition of "American". I have never seen a native speaker make a mistake like that. > Apparently you don't even understand blatant sarcasm, are you one? I understand sarcasm just fine. Calling a Haitian road "American" is not sarcasm. Yes, English is my first and only language. You said a picture was from the USA, and I doubted this, so I went and spent time chasing down the actual source. That's not facetiousness or sarcasm, that's either an innocent error, or misleading and antisocial. I interpreted it as innocent error, and attempted to politely correct your knowledge and explain, and now you reply with this argumentative comment, implying you deliberately attempted to mislead and waste our time. I won't reply further.
- BoorishBears 6y agoYou're just too dense to understand what was said, you shouldn't have replied in the first place. Person implies somehow Africa, the continent, is somehow unsuitable for Google maps vehicles (despite the fact Google has mapped hundreds of tens of thousands of miles in multiple countries in the continent) This comes from treating all of Africa like it's one giant country with the same infrastructure everywhere. I facetiously (a word you do NOT understand apparently) show a picture of Haiti, a North American country and say, since their roads are terrible all North American roads are terrible, and refer to an entire continent as if it were a single country that includes the US. From here your subpar English skills fail you, to the point I'm forced to use a word somewhat similar to facetious but not quite as accurate (sarcasm) because the proper word is above your understanding. Sometimes being imprecise allows a person with a challenged vocabulary such as yourself to catch up, but of course the Dunning-Kruger effect is in full force here, so you use it as an assertation that you're not the one failing to understand basic vocabulary. It's a shame English is your only language and yet mastery of it escapes you.
- phobosanomaly 6y agoThere's no other word for people from the United States because of the weird naming of the country. Canada - Canadians, Mexico - Mexicans, Brazil - Brazilians. United States - ......United Statesians? That's like people from the DRC calling themselves 'Democratic Republic of the Congolesians.' Nope, they just shortened it to Congolese. The United States of America just did the same thing. 'Americans.' They all use it, and for the most part so do their neighbors. Until some clever soul figures out a better way for the bologna of the North American sandwich to refer to it's citizens, the largest collection of English speakers on the planet will probably keep on trucking with the same boring term.
- jobigoud 6y agoThis unitedstatesian exists in other languages. In Spanish: estadounidense (in broad use). In French: étatsunien (rarer).
- jobigoud 6y ago> the largest collection of English speakers on the planet Indians?
- phobosanomaly 6y agoI wikipedia'd it before I posted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s... United States - Total English Speakers: 283,160,411 India - Total English Speakers: 246,344,737
- jobigoud 6y agoIn that article the Indian pop is from the 2001 census at 1,028 M. Current population is 1,388 M, keeping the same percentage of English speakers would place it at +305M speakers, although doing the same for USA also place it at +310M. That being said I think the table is wrong because the numbers don't add up to the total and also don't match the source. Based on that census India should have only 12.18% of English speakers, not 22.18%, so you should be correct in any cases.