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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Federal Republic Of the United States of Aglo America of Northern America of America of the Earth
Where are you from, Sr. David?
He is probably sobbing over the "red wave" that never happened.
I can make a better version of this. Why not try saying …
“Federal Republic of United States of Anglo America of Northern America of North America of America of Planet Earth”?! 🤭
More importantly we all know what's really America and American
https://www.raremaps.com/category/Maps/America
Although it is not as treacherous as what the Usamericans do, in South American countries we also say "America" for questions that are not of all America (the Americas), like a famous television host who begins his program by saying "¡buenas noches América!" (good night America!) being that this program is only transmitted to Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia.
Or that to refer to patriotic heroes of our independence (José de San Martín and Simón Bolívar) we qualify them as "¡Libertadores de América!" (Liberators of America!)
Guess what says on the sign as one goes through customs which welcomes those who traveled outside of the U.S.? It says: "Welcome to the United States" I tried looking for a "Welcome to America" but nothing was found.
Still we can write America like in the movies and advertisements
And in speech, newspapers, books, and magazines. And it isn’t just Americans who use the name this way, payaso.
Some things never change. You still think you’re proving people wrong and winning some victory just because ‘America’ isn’t the USA’s official name. Nobody is claiming it’s the official name. Nobody is claiming that the country is only ever called ‘America’. You know that ‘America’ is very often used to name the country in unofficial settings.
You have to keep mentioning this imaginary “victory” because you have nothing else. You’re so pathetic.
Please tell us yet again what the American team is officially called during the opening ceremony of the Olympics. And what does the plaque say that sits in front of the American ambassador at the UN? And what do the rings on the Olympic flag represent? You’ve proved yourself right so many times with these facts. These facts prove your opponents wrong. Of course they all prove that ‘America’ isn’t an unofficial name of the USA.
Well done. You never fail to demonstrate your enviable knowledge, intelligence, and logical reasoning.
Great David your progressing well!
Regardless of the fact that there are ignorant among US Americans who really believe that their country is called America and that the word "American" means United Statian, the most academic among them admit that "American" will never lose its continental sense of origin even in the English language. But these same US Americans who admit this, clarify that if in a language THE USE of a word exceeds its original meaning, that must be respected, as was the case with the Netherlands (Países Bajos), which in languages such as English and Spanish was called Holland, when this was totally wrong, since "Holland" is just a region -north and south- of the Netherlands (although this same example seems to finally discuss the above because the Dutch goverment managed -demanded- that this be changed in these languages).
And it is because of this "use", this linguistic convention, that in the English language for the continental, not being able to use "American", "North American" and "South American" are used, and to unify "Pan American".
what I meant is that the demonym American does not exist as "official" for citizens of the United States, the proof of that is that in their passports where it says "nationality:" they do not put "American", they put the name of the country "United States of America" (others do put "Mexican", "Canadian", "Argentinian" etc.)
Federal Republic Of the United States of Aglo America of Northern America of America of the Earth
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Does it matter that you guys are right and we are wrong!? No it doesn't. What matters is that we have such a large and far reaching platform in the world stage that we have proliferated our spin on truth to the point of overshadowing what's really America and American. And quite honestly, after over ten years straight posting almost every day on this forum; I've yet to be moved or convinced to acknowledge what's genuinely America and American. Fact is we aren't stupid. We know but we don't care. And we don't care how you feel about it either. So get used to it, we aren't changing.
You are so funny and clever.
:)
You’re absolutely right that I don’t care about the feelings of those who don’t like how ‘America’ and ‘American’ are most commonly used in English and many other languages. I have clearly stated this.
You’re absolutely wrong when you claim that it is incorrect to use the names in this way. It is not incorrect because it violates no rules of naming. Words and names often refer to more than one thing. This is the situation in this case. The way you use the words is correct. The way I use the words is correct. I am not falsely claiming that certain usages are incorrect. It is you and your buddies who prove yourselves to be biased, hypocritical, ignorant, arrogant, provincial, and simple-minded in your false claims that only your preferred usages are correct.
You will continue to use your preferred terms, and others will continue using theirs. English, as the global lingua franca, will consider exerting its immense influence. Enjoy.
I meant: “…will continue exerting its immense influence.”
I like the term "United Stater" better than "United Statian", and don't tell me that the ending "er" is only for professions because it is also used for demonyms like "Londoner" or "New Yorker" and "New Zealender" .
*Although the one who would most prefer them to use "US American".
United Statian is a real demonym. We are not deciding it here, whether we like it or not :)
So is ‘American’ for US citizens. It’s already been decided. It’s already used by billions of people, unlike ‘United Statian’, whether anyone likes it or not. :)
Losers use media to confuse and later pretend. They then say "usually", "commonly" or "also X way" to refer to wrong doings, hoping people forget after some years of hearing the same tape. In the meantime, they ignore that it is "dishonest", "arrogant" and "pretentious" to try to compare themselves with a continent, just as purposely exporting their bad habits outside of Northern America and calling everything else "rare".
Well said dude!
Exactly! And a good example is David. He just confessed it. Wrong no matter how popular will still be wrong. Yes, the issue has been that the U.S. has been using the name America for a long long time and that does not make it correct in the sense that they think it is their name. Meanwhile, the name America belongs to a continent.
United Statian in Italian
https://glosbe.com/en/it/United%20Statian
Yawn. Nice try. Italians very commonly call US citizens ‘americanos’.
This is the best you got? Sad. Yawn.