• dreadedsemi@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      US did it with a whole country named after a continent. What’s your country? those states who decided to unite. Which ones? The ones of America. Ah those ones.

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        It’s not ‘United States of North America’, it’s just United States of America. America is actually two continents.

        Not like that makes it any better LOL, just saying…

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            Could I refer to the US, Mexico and Brazil collectively as the not-united-united-states? (As in, they’re each united states, but they’re all not united)

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              On second thought, I hereby petition all three countries to unite together to form the United United States of the Americas

              Edit: and just for funsies, because that name is too long, they insist on calling themselves the United Nations. Their citizens call themselves Americans. 🙃

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          You’re aware that there are multiple geographic models, right? In some, “America” is a single continent spaning from Alaska to Patagonia. Also, in many “Australia” isn’t a continent - that would be Oceania.

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        Europeans love to point that stuff out. They always say it with this sort of relish like ‘you call yourselves Americans, but isn’t that the continent name?’

        What the alternative, Statesians? US American? Who do they think named it anyway? It’s not like we just made the call - it was their anscestors as much as mine who did it!

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          I understand there are people who say that while being serious, but just in case I was joking in the same sense as the New Zealand one. I’m sure if we look up real meaning of some old countries names they turn out to be weird or too simple.

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            1 year ago

            Oh yeah sorry if my annoyance seemed directed at your post, that wasn’t my intention. I had to rant because those who are serious and all smarmy about it really grind my gears.