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    1 year ago

    USAian

    If you really want to go down that road, use something like “United Statesman” or something that actually fits the language. “Americanian” is absurd and people will take you less seriously for it.

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      Spanish has it: estadounidense (unitedstatesian)

      Other than that, it’s no one’s fault but the USA’s they gave their country such a stupid name (stealing the one of the continent)

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        I really hate to break it to you, but the name “America” didn’t come from the Americans.

        (And if the person I replied to had been speaking in Spanish, I wouldn’t have had any reason to reply.)

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          I hate to break it to you, but the name America as it was chosen by Europeans was meant to be the name of the continent.

          The name USA was chosen by unitedstatesians when creating the country. A stupid mistake. Everyone else managed to picj a name, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Argentina… but not the USA.

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      USAian reads better than USAn 🤷 And I’m not going to type out “United Statesman” every time I want to refer to something USAian like a car. “United Statesman car”.

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        “USAian” doesn’t read better than anything when it’s a made up word that looks ridiculous. Just say “a US car” or “American”.

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                No, my dude. You just seemed like a non-native speaker of English and I was trying to help you out. It’s what I do for a living. I’ll be happy to teach “USAian” to my students if it ever becomes commonplace vernacular that they would likely hear on the streets. Unfortunately since it’s kind of grammatically nonsensical and weirder to both say and understand, that might take a whole lot more effort to accomplish than you seem to think it will. Good luck though. I find linguistic evolution interesting, so I won’t stop you.

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                  I see now where you were coming from. It would’ve helped to ask if I was a non-native speaker.

                  Nobody’s forcing anybody to say USAian. It’s a personal preference and it gets the point across.