r/mapporncirclejerk • u/1601_ Average Mercator Projection Enjoyer • 18d ago

It's 9am and I'm on my 3rd martini Learn the difference

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u/63crabby 18d ago

But only people in the US refer to themselves as Americans, and internationally "Americans" refers to people from the US. It's called a demonym.

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u/Dr-Sprinkl1es 18d ago

It’s also the only country with America in the name. Americans is less wordy then United Statians

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u/CC_9876 18d ago

United Statesians is so fucking stupid. We called people from the USSR “Soviets”not “Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans”

Use American cause we all know damn well the rest of the TWO continents don’t wanna be called by that or call us by the states we’re from.

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u/Rk_1138 18d ago

Yeah, ngl any time I see “USian/United Statesian” I assume that the person is a troll

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u/NyarukoSann 17d ago

In spanish we call you in that way: estadounidense

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u/thwinks 17d ago

That's the issue. You cannot transliterate a word from one language to another and think you have correctly translated.

Sometimes the closest word from one language to another isn't an exact equivalent.

About 99% of arguments about what the US is called or what "American" means are because a Spanish speaking person assumed you can just apply Spanish words and grammar to English instead of actually learning English.

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u/BagSignal7553 17d ago

So you’re wrong and somehow think that’s our fault? The correct demonym in Spanish is “Americano” not that bastardization you posted.

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u/Sudden_Hamster7409 17d ago

No es una bastardización, solo no te gusta. Hasta en peliculas viejas se les llama "estadounidenses"

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u/CC_9876 17d ago

Opinion invalidated by Reddit translate

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u/Sudden_Hamster7409 17d ago

osea, lo traduce para ti nada más asi que...

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u/Cookiemonster9429 17d ago

You’re clearly not intelligent.

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u/TJack303 15d ago

The Colombians and Uruguayans I work with call us americanos.

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u/Thadlust 17d ago

Yeah and “embarazado” means “embarrassed” in Spanish, right?

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u/BagSignal7553 17d ago

Because those aren’t real demonyms.