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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-10-01 06:20 pm

[ SECRET POST #2099 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2099 ⌋

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Re: Americans, what would you rather be called...

[personal profile] ariakas 2012-10-02 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Canadian here, and I don't give a shit. I'm technically an "American" in the moronically pedantic sense as well, but if I want to be included, I'll specify "North American". If I'm talking about someone from South/Central America, I'll call them "South/Central American". If I'm talking about the whole mega-continent, I'll say "The Americas".

Therefore, "American" means "someone/thing of the United States of America" to me and there's zero confusion about it whatsoever.

TO those who insist this is "wrong", because wah wah wah waaaah ablooobloobloo: this whole argument is one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever heard and I say that as a technical ~~~American~~~ (of the Americas) myself. "USian" is the second stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard. Words in a living language are defined by how they're used. I don't give two shits what you call it in Spanish. I'm speaking motherfucking English motherfucker.

Re: Americans, what would you rather be called...

(Anonymous) 2012-10-02 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Go fuck yourself.
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Re: Americans, what would you rather be called...

[personal profile] ariakas 2012-10-02 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Nah, I'll just keep on using American for people from the United States and North/Central/South American for everyone else on the two continents, since that's apparently all it takes to make some fucking people froth with rage.

Re: Americans, what would you rather be called...

(Anonymous) 2012-10-02 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
A Canadian friend of mine gets riled up about American Idol, because we dared to use 'American' instead of calling it 'U.S. Idol', I guess. :sigh:
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Re: Americans, what would you rather be called...

[personal profile] ariakas 2012-10-02 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
As a fellow Canadian: your friend is an idiot. Or, at least, idiotic about this. "American" has referred to people from the US for literally centuries.

Re: Americans, what would you rather be called...

(Anonymous) 2012-10-02 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
The only confusing one is Pop Idol, since it doesn't specify a country.