what really grinds your gears?

[Wade]

I think we, the citizens of the United States of America, use the word American to identify our country because there's no other way to explain our own nationality in a way that's unencumbered and makes sense. We say we're "American" because... what else would we say? We're U.S.-ian? Statesian? Cunts? (I'm know what you people say behind our backs. I've read the graffiti in the U.N. bathrooms) At least citizens of the U.K. still get their own brands of individuality... English, British, Scottish, Welsh...

Oh, and other reason is because we're arrogant pricks who think we're the only ones who matter ever... for that I do apologize, seriously.

[MisterTinkles]

southbiochem

However, you haven't legally attained the name "America" for yourselves yet, so that much I will fight.....



I think they bought it in 1914.
I called the President, but he cant find the receipt.

[Lilitu]

Oh my god i thought of the worst thing:

It makes me want to strangle these people when they do this... strangers who call on the phone and they don't introduce themselves first! It's the worst thing ever! It's so unbearably rude.

This is the worst phone call

"Hi is Mr/Ms _____ there?"

everytime that happens I want to yell "no, who the fuck are you."

And the worst thing, they hang up without telling you what they called for.

EUGH. I hate everything.

[MisterTinkles]

I think we, the citizens of the United States of America, use the word American to identify our country because there's no other way to explain our own nationality in a way that's unencumbered and makes sense. We say we're "American" because... what else would we say? We're U.S.-ian? Statesian? Cunts? (I'm know what you people say behind our backs. I've read the graffiti in the international bathroom) At least citizens of the U.K. still get their own brands of individuality... English, British, Scottish, Welsh...

Oh, and other reason is because we're arrogant pricks who think we're the only ones who matter ever... for that I do apologize, seriously.

Dont know about you........

But Im a TEXAN!!!

[southbiochem]

I think we, the citizens of the United States of America, use the word American to identify our country because there's no other way to explain our own nationality in a way that's unencumbered and makes sense. We say we're "American" because... what else would we say? We're U.S.-ian? Statesian? Cunts? (I'm know what you people say behind our backs. I've read the graffiti in the U.N. bathrooms) At least citizens of the U.K. still get their own brands of individuality... English, British, Scottish, Welsh...

Oh, and other reason is because we're arrogant pricks who think we're the only ones who matter ever... for that I do apologize, seriously.

Thanks, Wade....you are hardly an arrogant prick, tough mile:

Haha, yep..mile:

We call you people "Estadounidenses" which translates literally to Unitedstatians....which sounds just afwul in English...

but yeah...American as a demonym is already established...no changing that..not really bothered about that

"America" on the contrary is not an official term for the US...and it's less understandable (to me) as to where did that came from...maybe from ye old days referring the 13 colonies as "British America" in the maps? And then they dropped the "British"?

[MisterTinkles]

Oh my god i thought of the worst thing:

It makes me want to strangle these people when they do this... strangers who call on the phone and they don't introduce themselves first! It's the worst thing ever! It's so unbearably rude.

This is the worst phone call

"Hi is Mr/Ms _____ there?"

everytime that happens I want to yell "no, who the fuck are you."

And the worst thing, they hang up without telling you what they called for.

EUGH. I hate everything.

Hit redial or *69 or use caller ID if you have it.
Or you can look up the phone number online to see who it belongs too.

Then call THEM up once an hour for a whole day, and when they answer, honk an air horn into the phone or just hang up on them.

[MisterTinkles]

Thanks, Wade....you are hardly an arrogant prick, tough mile:

Haha, yep..mile:

We call you people "Estadounidenses" which translates literally to Unitedstatians....which sounds just afwul in English...

but yeah...American as a demonym is already established...no changing that..not really bothered about that

"America" on the contrary is not an official term for the US...and it's less understandable (to me) as to where did that came from...maybe from ye old days referring the 13 colonies as "British America" in the maps? And then they dropped the "British"?

Here you go Mr. SmartyPants.....


America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were part of a separate continent. A map created in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller was the first to depict this new continent with the name "America," a Latinized version of "Amerigo."
The map grew out of an ambitious project in St. Dié, France, in the early years of the 16th century, to update geographic knowledge flowing from the new discoveries of the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Martin Waldseemüller's large world map was the most exciting product of that research effort. He included on the map data gathered by Vespucci during his voyages of 1501-1502 to the New World. Waldseemüller named the new lands "America" on his 1507 map in the recognition of Vespucci's understanding that a new continent had been uncovered following Columbus' and subsequent voyages in the late 15th century. An edition of 1,000 copies of the large wood-cut print was reportedly printed and sold, but no other copy is known to have survived. It was the first map, printed or manuscript, to depict clearly a separate Western Hemisphere, with the Pacific as a separate ocean. The map reflected a huge leap forward in knowledge, recognizing the newly found American landmass and forever changing mankind's understanding and perception of the world itself.



So we do "own" the name America. But its not because of the American landmass, its because of the explorer naming it after himself.

[Wade]

"America" on the contrary is not an official term for the US...and it's less understandable (to me) as to where did that came from...maybe from ye old days referring the 13 colonies as "British America" in the maps? And then they dropped the "British"?

Yeah... I kind of chose to ignore that part in my post because I don't have a good answer as to why we do that. It's dumb, I agree.


Can I just be a citizen of Earth, or of Brahman? I hate tribalism of any kind, and I don't feel any particular belonging to the U.S. or California.

[Bowyn Aerrow]

United States of America.

Unlike other nations we don't have a real name, British are called Brits because they live in the nation formally known as Brittan. Chileans are called Chileans because they live in Chili. French are French cause they live in France. Mexicans are Mexican because they reside in Mexico.

America is short for the name United States of America, American is someone who hails from America.

There is a very logical reason why We The People refer to ourselves as Americans.


The ones we really need to worry about is the people of Holland who are also of the Netherlands but we call them Dutch....

No other people I know hide from their nation's name is such a convoluted manner. Clearly the Dutch cannot be trusted. We must nuke them before they do whatever nefarious thing they are going to do....

[southbiochem]

[B][I]I think they bought it in 1914.
I called the President, but he cant find the receipt.

Tinkles, my dear...

1914? That would make sense, Wilson wasn't fooling nobody...I mean he was yammering about world peace and self determination and yet he ordered Veracruz to be occupied...:eek: ????????

oh, well....you know how they say, If you can't find the receipt the purchase never happened

Yes....Américo Vespucio, the Italian guy

I know why the "America"

I don't know where the "US is America" comes from