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Trump 2 changed the calculus
Pope Francis was from S. America, so technically this is not the first American pope.
Quick question: what is the demonym (a word used to identify people who are from a particular place) of the people from the USA?
Yanks
US-American, often abbreviated to just American.
American. Or if we're being a little silly 'Murican.
USers.
US Americans
Amusingly, the very first search result I got for "US americans" is Exactly what I thought it would be
According to English speakers who didn't understand the proper meaning of words like "continent," it's "Americans." It's stuck around now though.
According to most other languages and nations who use more accurate descriptors, it's closer to "Statesman." You know, people from the 'United States'
Pretending to more grammatically correct and calling it "statesman." lol. We all live in states, whether you're in the united states of America or not, unless you live in some kind of anarchist or libertarian commune in the ocean or something.
Language is made up. The term used to refer to people from the USA in English is American essentially everywhere. It doesn't define anything. That's just the word used, and that's OK. For example, ketchup isn't a fermented fish sauce either, despite the original word possibly meaning that, but you likely wouldn't complain about that, because we all know what it means and that's the word we've decided to use for it.
Like I said, English speakers. English isn't the only language, and in most other languages it's closer to Statesman.
As I stated in a comment below, it's like having the one friend who burst into the room and declaring himself 'the Bossman guy' and every other nation in the world was like "okay Kyle, we'll call you the Bossman Guy since your parents are rich and you're a violent bully and we don't want to fight you on your identity issues.
And yes, language is always evolving, that's how it works.
Like I said, English speakers.
And we're speaking English...
The demonym for a German in English is German, despite it being Deutsch in German. Is this an issue?
As I stated in a comment below, it's like having the one friend who burst into the room and declaring himself 'the Bossman guy' and every other nation in the world was like "okay Kyle, we'll call you the Bossman Guy since your parents are rich and you're a violent bully and we don't want to fight you on your identity issues.
No one is telling other language speakers what to say. I English it's the dymonym of someone from the USA is American though, and it has been for a very long time, before it was even the nation of the USA, when it was still "British America." it wasn't force or violence that made it happen, and that makes you look very ignorant. It shows your clearly just making this stand as some anti-america (which I have problems with too) position, not from an actual position of logic and reason.
Again, we all live in states, so how is statesman any less confusing than American? It's arguably significantly worse as it implies membership to far more people than it actually includes.
I'm not anti-america.
This is the same thing as when people get upset about saying 'chai tea' or 'hound dog'
It was originally something else, people from a certain place used it differently, and now it's its own word. I was being snarky, I myself use 'American,' at the end of the day, who cares?
I'm not anti-america.
Fair enough. There's a lot of tankie here that make the same argument as you, but because they just hate the US. Their preferred term is usually USAsian though, so maybe I should have recognized you weren't one of them.
Fair enough, yeah, I don't wanna be confused with tankies lol
I love the US, and I want to help it be better too.
Personally I'd say Statesian than Statesman, but it is the same thing
There is 'Usonian', but nobody uses it.
I think "US-American" is the most accurate, least controversial, and most grammatically correct one there is ๐
Here in Murica the colloquial meaning of an unqualified "America" is "the United States of America" its just the way we speak ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
The big ol' typo in this meme makes it work even better.
Covfefe is probably served at conclvaves.
It's a satire account
I'm starting to think we live in a Neal Breen movie.
No... no... NOOOOOO!!!! IT MAKES TOO MUCH SENSE!!!!!
No if we did Neil would come in and save the world by making all the rich kill themselves...
Who?
If you have 2 hours that you just really fucking hate and want them to suffer, watch โFateful Findingsโ on Youtube. Someone uploaded it and since Neal Breen publishes and distributes all his own movies, Youtube doesnโt scan for them as copywritten.
Update: I watched it. This shit is up there with The Room. Distractingly awful.
That ending. I would have thought the President of Bank could have come up with an original way to off himself.
And why did Neil have to say every line twice? Why did he have to say each line twice?
Did your laptop survive?
They're fine, along with my title-less identical books
Homie. He doesn't make movies. He makes ART!!!
Don't watch it alone, it's actually mentally exhausting. I managed two alone, no more. Watch it with at least one other person so you can snark it as you watch. Fateful Findings was probably the worst. If you're not brave enough to face them alone, Kurtis Conner and Space Ice have snarks of the full films.
Also his films do get taken off YouTube for copyright. Internet archive has the full collection though.
I like to stream bad movies in the background while I work, but they can't be distractingly bad, like Ghost Rider 2 ... I'll check it out.
We need #EyesOnBreen right now
An American pope? In this economy?
It worked in Blazing Saddles ๐คท
Dank reference. ๐ซถ
Oh fun, I look forward to American gun insanity getting mixed into the Catholicism.
Priests and Nuns do have great kit for concealed carry.
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I'm sure the new pope is honored to have CitiesByDiana congratulating him.
Conclvave sounds like something you see a doctor about after a week locked in a room with hookers and blow.
Damn is wild to not even know any Latin...
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This cannot be real.
It's real, this is a meme Instagram account.
Real but satirical? I'm okay with that.
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