I’ve stated these things many times: ‘America’ originated as a name for S. America; it was soon used to name all of the Americas; & later it was used to refer to the US. I’ve also stated many times that I’m well aware that other people use the name differently. Please stop being dishonest by pretending that I am arguing against these points.

I really don't have the time to go back and look for your quotes. But you might and would you please enlighten us with the post and quote where after you have said many times that South America was the only part named America and the rest was Parias and then you say you have said that later the whole continent was named "America". You have not proven me wrong on anything but when I prove my points on many things you all of the sudden and conveniently disappeared.

You have never taken a direct quote of anything I have written and then proved it wrong. If you had, you would provide an example.

Argumentum ad populum is a logical fallacy. So sure thing. doesn't change the truth of the fact that the United States is only part of what genuinely America hence American is not a nationality.

As you've been made well aware.

You haven’t informed anyone of anything. Your “arguments” are a No Fact Zone.

It is a nationality. It also refers to a continental affiliation.

the official paper where one becomes a citizen of the U.S. says "U.S. Citizenship" and not American citizen. If it were a nationality, it would say the latter but it doesn't because it is wrong. It is erroneously to continue something that has been thought as correct but it is not. Just because public picked up a saying that has been spread erroneously for centuries does not make it correct. America is a continent, not a nation. The nation of the United States bears the name of the continent in which it was founded and that is the reason for its inclusion on the long name "United States of America". Not that the nation was given the name America and then later united as States, nope. History tells us that they were sovereign States which united in one common ideal to stay stronger together in the new world hence the continent, America.

Correct, if the term American were to ever be used in the U.S. Constitution; it would effectively grant every American citizen ( from Greenland to Tierra del Fuego Argentina) the rights and privileges intend solely for U.S. Citizens. Including the right to run for office and vote in U.S. elections.

Official names aren’t the only names that exist and they aren’t the only ones that are correct. This explains how billions of people call US citizens ‘Americans’ with only rare instances of confusion.

Obviously names can be used to refer to various things. How is it “correct” for ‘America’ to refer to a soccer team but “incorrect” for it to refer to a country? What’s the rule than unambiguously explains this? The soccer team is within the continent. So is the country. The soccer team is named after the continent. So is the country. Please provide a link to the universal law of naming that explains how the former is “correct” and the latter is “incorrect”.

You don’t really believe that such a rule exists, do you? If it does, why don’t you ever quote it? Is it just because your Google skills are weak?

David you live in that fantasy world that has been created to believe that the name America was actually coined for a nation. But at the same time you understand that the name was coined for a continent. You are a confused mind. That soccer team is named "America" in honor of the continent but naming a soccer team does not in fact take away the name of the continent and the people in those countries belonging to it. When the nation names itself the same way as the continent in which it is located and taking at the same time the rights to millions of people to also bear that name as continental citizens, that is an issue.

Obviously United States is promoted as America to justify misrepresenting the term American. Think we can all appreciate the U.S. narrative.

There's really nothing more to it.

The accurate terms are United Statesian, U.S. Citizen ... or U.S. American (which is a subset of full set of what is American) explicitly referring to American from the United States e.g. U.S. Post Office.

The ‘America’ in United States of America refers to the continent. Today, in English, ‘America’ by itself almost always refers to the USA. These are facts.

Names can refer to more than one thing. That which names refer to can change over time. This doesn’t break any rules of naming. These are facts.

If people started calling Jesus ‘Nazareth’, then ‘Nazareth’ would refer to Jesus.

This is what happened with ‘America’. It doesn’t matter that you don’t like it. Your dislike obviously didn’t prevent it from happening. Do you know why? Because your preferences don’t determine how people use names.

It would refer to Jesus in addition to referring to the city.

So you must also believe that RuPaul is really a woman.

Exactly, because Jesus comes from the city but he's got a real name :Jesus. Unlike the U.S. who is using the name America as their name now when it is the place where it came from just as Jesus was called from Nazareth. You yourself understand this very well right? This is what I have been telling you. U.S. adding the name "America" meant that the nation came from America and that is not the name of the nation but a continent. If you put the two examples together, Jesus = U.S., Jesus of Nazareth, U.S. of America, both have a biographical place where they came from and not that it is their name or if not Jesus would had changed his name to "Nazareth" and so the U.S. using the name of "America" would had correlated to that but you know this didn't happen because it is wrong.

Very good, although it is actually "United Mexican States", not United States of Mexico :)

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.