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American is way more ridiculous, it's just that you are more used to it. Anyway American is becoming a too narrow description for such adventurous people, what about Earthman? More space age. After all Earthmans like Bruce Willis have saved the planet hundreds of times.
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"American" might be more ridiculous from your point of view, but billions of people are already using it.
I think it's a mistake to underestimate the power of inertia on mankind. "American" is the term that stuck, and no amount of pontification from elitists will change that. A dose of reality is in order.
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Of course, because it is the word that Stations use themselves. I used to have a friend who believed he was Maradona. I would always call him Dieguito in my visits at the lunatic asylum. Why to be cruel if you can just be kind?
So you can call yourself whatever you want and most people will stick to it, it's not a big deal, but because of things like that, trillions of people around the world don't see you as the kindest of nations, do they?. That's realty mate; the world doesn't like you very much.
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<<Of course, because it is the word that Stations use themselves>>
Is the politically correct term "Stations", "Statians", or "Statesians" (or all three)?
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I don't know, do I? It's too early for standards, just let people use their creativity, but you natives who know the language well, could at least try and make the efford.
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In the US, the "politically correct" term for Americans is Americans. I have no idea where this whole notion of "Statians" originated, but it seems to have only caught on in a few places, and it is certainly not catching on (even with the PC crowd) in the US.
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"Of course, because it is the word that Stations use themselves."
Apparently you didn't read my post all the way through.
"American" is the term most of the world uses, not just "Statians"--and that includes you Englishmen, too.
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I'm quite sure that that Antimoon is the only "place" where the silly sounding term "Statian" is used. I'm also quite sure that were I to go up to a group of American tourists here and say to them: "I hope you Statians have a wonderful time while you are here in Scotland" I would get some strange looks. I won't even try it out - it's too silly for words.
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It may be silly but it's SO logical!
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How is it logical? Nobody calls a people or culture by the name of an adjective for a political and economic structure. Of course you're right, it is logical - people call the people from the United Kingdom "Uniteds" and people from the European Union "Unionists". Not English, Scottish, European, etc.
You're right, it _IS_ so logical! Or, more correctly, you're an idiot and all the people who suggest this are idiots, particularly the people who are ESL and have no right to suggest what goes on within the English language. There is no excuse for the Canadians who talk about this, they're just a lost cause.
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Also, there seems to be a wider movement of these freaks who think "American" should also mean "Canadian" and "Paraguayan". You can read it on like ... the Guardian or BBC's little comment sections, they pop up once in a blue moon.
"America??? Are you talking about Canadians or Brazilians?? Because they're in America, too!" Where did these even come from? America isn't even the name of any continent on this planet--there's North America and South America, and these people are called North Americans and South Americans when speaking on continental terms (because the continents are, surprise surprise, called North America and South America--the Americas is used, but it's not the name of a continent, it just cuts North and South America out of the group for sake of linguistic efficiency since "America" is the common name shared between two completely different continents).
The people who make this argument are just looking for an excuse to criticize America, a nation and people who are blamed for everything that goes wrong anywhere in the world. Your wife divorced you? America did it, and man, foreigners will get right in your face about it.
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"people who are ESL and have no right to suggest what goes on"
We ESL demand the right to elect the president of the USA. If he is going to meddle with our life, we have every right to elect the one we like. We're not happy with the presidents you Statians elect; they are unsuitable.
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"We ESL demand the right to elect the president of the USA. If he is going to meddle with our life, we have every right to elect the one we like. We're not happy with the presidents you Statians elect; they are unsuitable."
lol
It looks like the Christians' horror of the notion of a New World Order is beginning to take root in the world's zeitgeist.
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"America??? Are you talking about Canadians or Brazilians?? Because they're in America, too!" Where did these even come from? America isn't even the name of any continent on this planet--there's North America and South America, and these people are called North Americans and South Americans when speaking on continental terms (because the continents are, surprise surprise, called North America and South America--the Americas is used, but it's not the name of a continent, it just cuts North and South America out of the group for sake of linguistic efficiency since "America" is the common name shared between two completely different continents)."
You're mad as a brush mate, a thing can't have a North and a South and at the same time not exist. That's an ontological impossibility. And a thing can belong to a proper subset of itself, that's even more absurd. So America as a country inside North America is just riduculous however you look at it.
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"America" is the common name shared between two completely different continents"
How extraordinary!
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