• paperazzi@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Canada understands the threat, thus the boycott of all things USian and call for 300,000 civilian military.

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      17 days ago

      USian

      Nobody uses this. In fact nobody uses an acronym and slaps ian or any other postfix to describe any group of people anywhere UAEians see how weird that is?

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        2 days ago

        I can call them whatever I want. That’s the neat thing about the English language - it’s versatile.

        Also, I refuse to call them “Americans” anymore. USians don’t own that term. As a Canadian, I’m american, cause I live in North America. People who live in Mexico and South America are also americans. In fact, they have more title to that name than USians or myself as a non-indigenous person.

        And it will always be Gulf of Mexico.

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          2 days ago

          Nobody uses Americans to mean everyone from Guatamala to Canada. The problem with having your own unique conflicting usage is that literally nobody understands you

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          16 days ago

          it is completely different from USian or UAEian note the actual word that is pluralized is a fucking word as opposed to an acronym!

          It’s also weird to invent such a word in the same language instead of using the correct word that planet earth and the people in question use.