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 (1398)
Morgan really thinks that Brazillians call people from the US as "Americanos". XD
Who is going to tell her? XD
There are each time more and more United Statian soldiers in my land :(
Morgan and his multiple accounts, don't worry. If there would have been real people, they would already had commented something relevant.
WOW, 210+ signs, thanks guys!!! WE ARE GOING FOR THE 500!!!!
A drop in the ocean. Congratulations…I guess.
A drop in the ocean, you mean 220+ people? Nah, it feels more like reforesting a forest. Everytime more closer to 500 and after 500 you know what follows 1000, 1500, etc. There is no need for being anxious nor being abdorbed from despair. I mean, YOU can worry.
WOW this post had a target of 100 votes and made it. Now I see it crossed the new 200 target!!!
https://www.change.org/americacontinent
“El Cementerio Americano, the American Cemetery, is the last ghostly reminder of the quarter century when the United States ran La Isla as a virtual colony.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/travel/cuba-isle-of-youth-isla-de-juventud.html
“El camposanto donde reposan los restos de cientos de ciudadanos estadounidenses en la Isla de la Juventud, y conocido entre sus pobladores como el Cementerio de los Americanos – o el Cementerio Americano – fue proclamado este miércoles como Monumento Nacional.”
https://bit.ly/2UYh2ol
GUYS I TOLD YOU TO REPORT MORGAN, SHE IS USING MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS TO UPVOTE HERSELF AND DOWNVOTE OTHERS, ERNESTO IS ONE OF HE MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS. PLEASE REPORT HER.
A DISTINGUISHED AND WELL EDUCATED VOTE :)
Eh? Morgan, baby, are you butthurt?
I like it there too, but you should take it easy =*
Just get a two-four, put some vaseline before and you'll alright next time baby
He doesn't like to be called Statian. He prefers U.S. American.
I am a United Statian girl, yes. Happy? but I am American too
Well said darling, we are all Americans here
The sickest of burns: https://hinative.com/pt-BR/questions/3016379
You’re welcome. Enjoy!
A distinguished and well educated burn :)
From the Brazilian Senate’s official website:
“Adjetivos gentílicos estrangeiros”
“Estados Unidos: norte-americano, estadunidense ou americano”
https://bit.ly/3dwyiY7
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
Muito ignorante