• fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Yeah, I mean I totally get the annoyance of American being overloaded for both US person and of the American continents, but USAian ain’t the solution lol that kind of sucks (hard to say, no history to it, etc)

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        11 months ago

        American is pretty unambiguous. What are you getting it mixed up with? No one else uses it. If you hear American, do you have to run through a list of other countries asking them which they are from? Of not, it’s unambiguous.

        You could argue that it shouldn’t be the pronoun for a US citizen, but that’s a different argument than it being ambiguous.

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          11 months ago

          Whatever adjective makes you feel better: appropriate, apt, fitting, correct, modest, less expansive, less assuming, less imperious, less opulent, less grandiose, less egocentric, less narcissistic