[pbhjpbhj]

I refer to USA as that and its people as USAmerican or USian variously. America is a continent and whilst a good deal of North America is USA plenty isn't.

USA is a terrible name, it could equally apply to any country, Canada say, in the American continent formed from multiple states.

It is wrong to call societies only for USAmericans "The American ...". The whole thing supports the idea that the only Americans worth bothering with are USian, it's extremely pompous and self-agrandising.

You should get a proper name.

Perhaps if things work out in Korea they'll call themselves the United States of Asia ...

Re Mexico, there's no continent called Mexico, no ambiguity or appearance of narcissism attaches to not using the full title. It's not at all equivalent.

[mitchty]

> I refer to USA as that and its people as USAmerican or USian variously. America is a continent and whilst a good deal of North America is USA plenty isn't.

America is not a continent, its two continental plates roughly separted at Panama via the Carribbean plate. Can you point me to a recording of someone using this terminology in real life? USAamerican is pronounced as ooh sa American or what? I can't see this catching on. Or oooh ess ian either. I doubt the Canadians want to get lumped in as Americans even under this nouveau definition.

> USA is a terrible name, it could equally apply to any country, Canada say, in the American continent formed from multiple states.

But it isn't that at all, which segues into:

> Re Mexico, there's no continent called Mexico, no ambiguity or appearance of narcissism attaches to not using the full title. It's not at all equivalent.

I was using that as a parallel in that we don't call mexico by its republic name.

Words can have multiple disparate meanings, America tends to have indicated a shortening of The United States of America. Do you believe citizens of this country can't name themselves?

You also conveniently omitted what english speaking region you are from so I can't follow up on how wide spread your version of things is/n't.

[pbhjpbhj]

Someone else using the terminology, perhaps the first line of the Wikipedia entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas), or Collins (https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/america)?

"USAmerican" - like U.S.A but with American replacing the A. Variations expected.

>America tends to have indicated a shortening of The United States of America //

To people who assume that it's the only place in America that anyone would talk about.

>Do you believe citizens of this country can't name themselves? //

How many current citizens chose that name; I'll go with none. If you asked the question "what should we name our union of states, one of several unions of states in America" I'd hope most intelligent people would think something other than USA was best.

I'm from the UK (which has a lot of stupid naming too, but that doesn't make USA a sensible name, bad naming elsewhere doesn't make this naming better). But for the purposes of this conversation that probably just counts as "not America" by which will be meant "not USA". /s

/rant