America is the name of a whole continent. United States of America means that the United States belongs to America and NOT that America belongs to the United States. So, next time you want to refer to The United States of America, you can do it as U.S. or the States or whatever you want but not as only America. Gotcha?
Here we will show you some wrong and correct uses of the term America:
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Let the world know that USA should not be called America! America is one whole continent.
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United States is America like RuPaul is a woman. No sensible human being buys into that malarkey.
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Very good, although it is actually "United Mexican States", not United States of Mexico :)
“David, and where did the United States get the name America from????”
Misses the Obvious, as we both know, the ‘America’ in ‘United States of America’ refers to the continent. I have stated this many times. As we both know, this doesn’t mean that ‘America’ does not, or cannot, refer to the USA. This doesn’t mean that ‘America’ isn’t an unofficial name of the USA. This doesn’t mean that it’s “incorrect” to call the USA ‘America’?
Why do you keep asking me this question? I have already answered it correctly a number of times. What do you think you are proving?
So shameless
How is it shameless?
I ask you because you keep saying that America has different meanings. You yourself wrote that America means the name of the continent. Then you say that the USA can be named America. I ask you then if the USA can be named America and the meaning of America is originally a continent how can a nation/country be called the same name as the continent in which that nation was founded on? The only way that what you say could be understandable is that people have been wrongly using the name America to call a country which its name is United States and is in America. So the supposed meaning you talk about is just people calling the U.S. "America" because somewhere someone started to call it that way but it really means the continent.
I see that David is back with the idea that America can have many meanings. When it actually originated to be the name of the western hemisphere new world and not a country or nation, America, is and will always be what was originally meant to be, the name of the new continent. Those using the name America are honoring the new continent by using it as their own names, names of sports teams, or the United States which were founded in the continent of America.
I don’t deny that ‘America’ originally referred to South America. What I mean by “multiple meanings” is that the name is used to refer to various things. It has multiple referents.
You agree with me and the truth by stating that the name refers to various things. The bulk of our disagreement is based on your misunderstanding, or your pretended misunderstanding, of what I mean by “multiple meanings”. ‘America’, in a very basic sense, means ‘the land of Amerigo’ or some version of that. I have never denied this, or that ‘America’ first referred to South America, or that many people use the name to refer to all of the Americas.
Most of my posts counter the false claim that it’s “incorrect” to call the USA ‘America’. When I say that ‘America’ can “mean” the USA, I am not saying that its original meaning was ‘USA’ and not ‘the land of Amerigo’. That’s absurd. I am using the word ‘mean’ in a very common and standard way. You misunderstand me, either intentionally or unintentionally.
Sure, America was written on a map where South America is today, but you keep staying on that without going further into how the entire continent was later named America. Is there a reason why you keep avoiding how the name was coined and how it was explained in the Universalis Cosmographia by Martin Waldseemuller and Mattias Ringmann. Everything in the new world was that continent, and when all was mapped and discovered became the fourth part of the world, a new continent, America. The U.S. took the name of the continent and it seems that it wants to keep it and change the continent's name to The Americas.
Please read carefully & thoroughly!
Regardless of what continental model anyone follows, it doesn't automatically make América a country & 'American' a term only for the U.S.A.🇺🇲!👍
América definitely is not a country or a nation. Therefore, 'American' isn't a nationality, a citizenship, or a term exclusively for the U.S.A.🇺🇲
Anyone who uses these terms as such is due to selfishness, ignorance, conceitedness, laziness, stubbornness, indoctrination, and/or arrogance!
Furthermore, an American is from the Continent of América!👍
The United States of América/America (U.S.A.)🇺🇲 has a simple, basic, generic, & descriptive name that's easy to comprehend & not misinterpret in any way or language!
The United States of América/America (U.S.A.)🇺🇲 simply means we are STATES, that are UNITED, on the Continent 'OF' AMÉRICA!
Not América of the United States!!!😏
If you want to separate it into 2 continents, you'll have to call the southern one "America" and the northern one "Parias"
Or simply use "America" for most part of the continent, and Anglo America for the very North section, mainly including Canada and the United States.
Guyana speaks English and isn't in the Northern part.
Have to? No. North America and South America work perfectly and are very well-established.
There aren’t any rules that dictate which names we “have to” use. That’s why the whole world doesn’t have to call the Americas ‘America’. We don’t have to call North America ‘Parias’ just because that’s what appeared on the 1507 Waldseemüller map. The whole world doesn’t have to use the names that some Latin Americans prefer.
The whole world has to use the names that United Statians prefer, of course manipulating the media. Check how they use Wikipedia to call the US like the continent.
China had to come to start giving them lessons.
Everyone can use whatever name they want. If they choose to use a name that isn’t common in the language they are speaking, then they are responsible for any confusion.
English-language Wikipedia and English-language media often refer to the USA as ‘America’ because that is what it’s often called in English. There’s no manipulation. They’re just using English properly and in a way that English speakers easily understand.
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Hey David Morgan, don't you get bored of coming up with the same speech every three months and leave crying again and again with no arguments left?
It is wrong to say that ‘America’ only refers to the USA.
It is wrong to say that ‘America’ cannot refer to just the USA.
It is wrong to say that it is incorrect to call the USA ‘America’.
None of you has ever conclusively demonstrated that it is incorrect to call the USA ‘America’. You have not demonstrated this because you cannot demonstrate it. You cannot demonstrate it because it is not, in fact, incorrect. Words can and often do have more than one meaning. Your feelings and preferences don’t determine which usages are “correct” or “incorrect”.
To clarify: I mean that it is wrong to say that ‘America’ only has one meaning, and that meaning is ‘USA’. It is also wrong to claim that ‘America’ cannot be used to refer to the USA by itself, and not all of the Americas. It is perfectly correct to use ‘America’ to refer to the USA by itself, or to use ‘America’ to refer to all of the Americas. These are just two of the meanings of the name.
Personally, I thnk this has less to do with how language works and more about being culturally aware and considerate of different peoples. Don’t be ignorant. There’s more people in the Americas than just the US.
And there is only one America - the New World - aka. the Western Hemisphere
Wrong. America also refers to the USA. And América also refers to a professional Mexican soccer team. You don’t determine which usages are correct.
Actually, the Western Hemisphere isn’t just the new world. It’s also some parts of Europe and some parts of Africa and even some parts of Oceania.
Hey David, are you on any YouTube channels commenting?
I would like to interact with you!
Who would want to “interact” with your irrelevant copypasta?
Judging by your comment, we already have.
Which accounts do you use on YouTube?
Captain America’s copy and paste data is NOT IRRELEVANT!
ONLY YOUR MESSAGES ARE IRRELEVANT!
David, and where did the United States get the name America from????
“David, and where did the United States get the name America from????”
Misses the Obvious, as we both know, the ‘America’ in ‘United States of America’ refers to the continent. I have stated this many times. As we both know, this doesn’t mean that ‘America’ does not, or cannot, refer to the USA. This doesn’t mean that ‘America’ isn’t an unofficial name of the USA. This doesn’t mean that it’s “incorrect” to call the USA ‘America’?
Why do you keep asking me this question? I have already answered it correctly a number of times. What do you think you are proving?
I think that a simple and trauma-free solution would be that (in English) just add the U and S to American, "US American", and that American again means "person from any country in the Americas"
this page is not about demonyms