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Proudly banned from lemmy.ml for a) being critical of the CCP and b) being against the unlawful deportation of American minorities

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  • Yeah, that is lie 48 characters that we’d had to pass by phone and they have to type it flawlessly.

    Wouldn’t be so bad if everyone knew their Alpha Bravo Charlies

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  • First, so I know that you read it, I’m going to repeat what I said earlier. At some point, you have to look back at this conversation and think “I got really fucking aggressive just because this guy said a date differently from how I do, and it makes me look like a twat.”

    Second, more important to my point, USian is not my demonym, and you don’t get to decide that it is. That’s really all I should have said this entire time.



  • 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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    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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    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