Typical nationalist South American, doesn’t understand that there are countless continental models and none is more correct than the others but still demands English speakers use their languages meaning.
How about you stop being such a nationalistic little colonial cunt and enforcing your language on others?
Pope Francis was from S. America, so technically this is not the first American pope.
Quick question: what is the demonym (a word used to identify people who are from a particular place) of the people from the USA?
Cunts?
Morons feels more accurate. As a moron anyway.
Sad this doesn’t extend to French people as well.
US Americans
Amusingly, the very first search result I got for “US americans” is Exactly what I thought it would be
According to English speakers who didn’t understand the proper meaning of words like “continent,” it’s “Americans.” It’s stuck around now though.
According to most other languages and nations who use more accurate descriptors, it’s closer to “Statesman.” You know, people from the ‘United States’
Typical nationalist South American, doesn’t understand that there are countless continental models and none is more correct than the others but still demands English speakers use their languages meaning.
How about you stop being such a nationalistic little colonial cunt and enforcing your language on others?
Here in Murica the colloquial meaning of an unqualified “America” is “the United States of America” its just the way we speak ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
South America is South America, not America.
So yes, technically the first American pope. Not the first Pope from the Americas.
“American” is the official demonym of the United States but people here will fight you on that for whatever reason.
By that logic he’s the first North American pope.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas
Yes? He’s both from the country of America and from the continent of North America.
This is very basic English, it shouldn’t be blowing your mind.
Hes the second American pope. America refers to both north and south america. The United States of America only referes to a part of America.
He may be the first north american pope and the first pope from the united states of america, but hes not the first american pope.
No.
We follow a different continental model than you do that separates them into two different continents of North America and South America.