Indeed, U.S.A. is not America!
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?
How should I use the term America then?
Here we will show you some wrong and correct uses of the term America:
This is how we do it in America.
This is how we do it in the States.
- America is my country and I love it.
- The United States is my country and I love it.
- America lost the Vietnam war.
- U.S.A. lost the Vietnam war.
- Here in America we love Mc Donald's.
- Here in the U.S. we love Mc Donald's.
Please, note that this page in not about demonyms (gentilics) but about the way to call a country.
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Comments (1251)
Yep, United Statian has been in use for more than a 100 years:
https://bit.ly/3yzt1HG
And, as Ivonne mentioned below, here we can read how much confusion people have with the wrong use of American:
https://www.quora.com/topic/United-Statian
:)
It’s been around for 100 years and it’s still extremely rare. You do have a lot to celebrate. Keep showing us your skills by Googling ‘United Statian’.
Ohhh, Morgan so your are David, that David that was here 5-8 months ago!!! I regognize the "pinche payasaso". Oh David, oh David, darling do you change your gender and called yourself "Morgan". Pretty pathetic, hahahahaha. XD
WOW!! You figured it out! More proof of your supreme intelligence. Too bad your skills don’t extend to accepting obvious facts.
Hahaha, you are pretending to be a woman named Morgan because back when you were "David" everyone shut your mouth. Now your are using multiple acconunts to upvote yourself. Extremely pathetic. Don't tell me your are also Ivonne. Keep crying harder David, sorry, Morgan.
And yet you have never quoted anything that I have posted and proved it wrong. Why is that?
I knew he was a travesti!!! LGBT+ David Morgan BS
Andy, please stop being a liar. You are already a plagiarist. That is bad enough. Here are examples of Brazilians saying that ‘Americano’ is the most common term for a US citizen in Brazilian Portuguese. They aren’t liars like you are. They can be trusted. You clearly can’t be.
Generally we use Americano
We often say "Americano" rather than estado unidense
…i think the best is just Americano…
The most common term that we use is "Americano".
Americano
Americano (american)
Americano
americano is the most common name
https://hinative.com/pt-BR/questions/3016379
Darling, you already showed that bs. When Brazilians actually start calling US people as "Americano" then you can stop crying. "tHweY cWan BwE tRwusTeD wa wa wa"
WOW 310+ signs, we are doing it guys!!!
https://www.change.org/americacontinent
WOW!!! In a few days nobody will call the USA ‘America’ anymore. Great work, Andy!
That is not the purpose of the petition you moron. Only if you know how to read and comprehend.
It’s just a drop in the ocean, pinche payaso.
Check this out guys https://bit.ly/36j7rLq
I chose some words that describe both Andy and his delusions about how common United Statian is.
That site only works with books, you idiot. If you search on Google schoolar the same amount of books will appear. Not every book is in public domain. What an ignorant.
I never thought or claimed that N-gram covered every word ever written, you cretin. My point is that “United Statian” is extremely uncommon. I posted a link that demonstrated that. The word IS very uncommon, and my post clearly demonstrates that.
Andy, no matter how much you pretend, you cannot overcome your lack of intelligence, your ignorance, your pettiness, your bias, and your poor education.
Extremely uncommon for the books that are publicly available in Google Scholar. The site is called Google Books Ngram Viewer for a reason and that is tied to google scholar you moron. I don't have to pretend anything. Ngram Viewer isn't going to resolve your frustration, sorry.
Check this out guys https://www.quora.com/topic/United-Statian
Hey David, sorry Morgan! didn't you say this would not reach 100, and you only voted in favor to laugh? Do you admit you lost your own challenge?
https://www.change.org/americacontinent
Andy, chiquitito, even you aren’t simple-minded enough to believe your own BS. Facts are facts.
Americano é a forma mais comum e também a mais enraizada na história de nossa língua. De Machado de Assis a Caetano Veloso – “Americanos são muito estatísticos/ Têm gestos nítidos e sorrisos límpidos” – existe uma tradição cultural séria a legitimar americano como termo preferencial para designar o que se refere aos Estados Unidos no português brasileiro.
https://bit.ly/2SKRxGu
Darling, honey, baby, Morgan. It is no surprise that you are so stupid. I already told you to shut the f up because you don't don't understand about Portuguese. XD, it is so funny you trying so hard. Come on downvote me wiht your multiple logs. That is pathetic. BTW are you frustrated about Change.org? Or maybe even that in US universities they are indoctrinating the use of inclusive language -and you know, that includes what annoys you X''D. Here it comes the 6 downvotes from you. Hahahaha!!!
What have I misunderstood from the quote I posted? What does it say that doesn’t support my argument?
You won’t answer this. We all know why. Even you know. You with your astonishingly limited capacities.
Hahaha, that is so funny. What arguments? Your kind don't have any arguments. Try harder, harder until it became reality. Until then it will only remain in the stupid mind of you and of your kind.
Where are the downvotes by the way? Aren't you going defend yourself, or everyhting I said was so true that you ended being the laughing stock of here for being pathetic.
As for the use of the word "American" it seems to me more questionable, because even the main dictionaries of the English language admit that this word continues to be its logical use for what belongs to the Americas (or America). The one I think they should use is "US American" for nationality, because it includes all the elements of your full name.
When they say "America" they are not just saying that word, they are compressing or abbreviating -as happens with any long name- the real name "The United States of America", all that sentence is the name of the country, not just a part of her.
"America" is an informal abbreviation, the OFFICIAL abbreviation is "United States".