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Varus and gbaji boring you immensely lately?

I miss Nobby stumping through to call us all bloody colonials.

High Colonics and Low Colonics.

You're going to make some Latin Americans mad.

I don't speak Canadian, is that a problem? ****. protip: language and country name are not necessarily correlated.

While there are certainly north Americans and south Americans, which encapsulate areas that are not in the US, if you refer to Americans, everyone knows who you're talking about. It's the recognized name for people from the states, which is derived from the formal country name.

Of course people have said this exact thing a number of times. I'm just wasting my time.

Oh, I was not necessarily disagreeing with you, just clarifying.

If you want to get into arguments over dialectic differences as a hobby, just move to Miami. Nothing better than getting a Peruvian, Cuban and Colombian in the same room so you can compare what words are totally innocuous in one dialect but absolute insults in the other.

There's also a strong underpinning of hatred for very specific cultures in the Latin islands due to the insane amount of colonialism that has occurred and the imperialism that continues to occur.

It's a really sad situation where your culture has a base hatred for not only your conquerors but also the indigenous people that got conquered but managed to retain enough of the original culture in future generations.

Sort of like people living in urban brownstones hating both suburbanites and urban loft/flat-dwellers.

I find it odd that for someone who is making a grammatical argument to ignore the word "of" in "The United States OF America". According to my "light research", the term "Americas", was used for the new world, to include the entire land mass, not just the fictional boarders that we LATER created.

This translates into The United States Nation of the American continent, so to shorten "The United States" (a country) to "America" (two continents) is silly.



Yea, well that contradicts your reasoning on "short hand" of the term USA. Your only argument on why it is acceptable was short hand. That did not include "correctness", as exclusively using "American" for the U.S is as equally wrong as exclusively using the term "Asian" for Cambodia. Just because a country has the word "Asia" in their name, it doesn't make them any more or less Asian than the other Asian countries residing in the Asian continent.



I honestly don't think you even know the argument at hand, given your responses.

Edited, Mar 30th 2011 7:22pm by Almalieque

Stumping sounds like the kind of walk you'd see from a particularly unfortunate pirate.

It's your lame attempt to tell us that we have no identity because we call ourselves "Americans" after the continent we live on, which also holds other nations. To that end, you want to prove to us how stupid it is to call ourselves "Americans" and our products "American" if we won't even bother to call the language we speak "American."

At least, that's what I'm picking up. Perhaps I've completely missed your point. It wouldn't be the first time, and it won't be the last, because you have such a strange, twisting, wicked path that you take to get to your points, you often lose people on the journey. I swear, your conversations are like Charlie and the Chocolate factory, and I feel like the kid who ate the four course meal gum and ended up looking like a blueberry.

Edited, Mar 30th 2011 12:53pm by Belkira

Jesus christ were you guys talking about gay marriage or something? 13 pages? Really?

I didn't say it was unofficially added..... I simply broke down how the name was made.

Many countries official names are much longer than what we call them. For example, many countries start their names with "Democratic/Republic/People of xyz". In these cases the first parts are not unique as many countries are "Democratic/Republic/People of". The unique part is usually the "xyz", as it usually only can refer to two nations total.

The equivalent of calling the U.S "Americans" because it has the word "America" in their name is calling the Chinese people "People" because their name has "People" in it. If you're going to abbreviate, that's fine, but you abbreviate the unique part of your name. You don't abbreviate the part that isn't unique to your nation. That is, unless you have no problem with the term "people" solely referring to the Chinese?



Honestly, you were very close, but no dice.

I'm not proving it's stupid to call ourselves "Americans" because our language isn't called "American". I'm pointing out the fact that people don't call our language "American" because that's just stupid, but that's no different than calling our citizens and products "American" as well.

For whatever reason, we see the stupidity when referring to our spoken language, but not with our citizens, products and services. I was hoping if I pointed out the stupidity in calling our language "American", you would see the resemblances in everything else we call "American".

Think about it... Regardless of it's accuracy, it's ok to call this country America, the people American, with American services and American products, but we cant' say "We speak American", just like we say "Speaking Chinese"?. If we didn't pwn the word "America/n", then you would have a point, but we did, so what's another misuse?

Very poor example by fuckstick. People's Republic of China is spot on with United States of America. He does this regularly though, make arguments and then provide examples that lend support to you, not him.