[ SECRET POST #2479 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2479 ⌋

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[ariakas]

And yet, those non-native speakers understand what is meant but the word perfectly, or they wouldn't be offended by the intended meaning. Nobody said "on the internet", now did they? Which is why you have a number on fully grown adults on this thread along who've lived their entire lives without hearing the the 'alternatives' - American has only ever meant one thing.

So... being dickish to one group of people (by stripping them of the national identity they chose for themselves and have always had in their language/culture) is perfectly acceptable so long as you're not dickish to another group of people (who still have their national identities, as well as continental identities, but would like to retain the supra-continental identity that they're accustomed to in another language/culture by co-opting the national identity of the former).

Claiming that "insisting" on being called your own name is a dickish thing to do is a stretch.

Why is it that Americans must be the one to invent a new word and change their identities, anyway? Why not just keep using the word "Americano" - in English - to mean what it does in Spanish: "a citizen of the Americas"? It would hardly be the first world English has adopted from a romance language even though it technically has the same word and gave the new word a different nuance?