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From Spain here, when we want to speak about USA people we use the term "yankee" or "gringo" rather than "american" cause our americans arent from USA, that terms are correct or mean other things?

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[โ€“] TurtleOnASkateboard@lemmy.ml 15 points 14 hours ago (7 children)

It's a weird lacuna of the English language, there's no official word for estadounidense.

[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

The reason for this is simple: the word in English is "American". Because in English speaking countries, it is almost universally the case that we talk about the 7 continents. And in the rare case we talk about 6 continents, it's from merging Europe and Asia (which, frankly, is blatantly a far superior model of the continents), not merging North America and South America.

So "America" unambiguously refers to the country, and there's no need for estadounidense, any more than there's a need for "commonwealthian" for someone from the Commonwealth of Australia.

[โ€“] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 12 hours ago (3 children)
[โ€“] mattyroses@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

They're just Americans anyways

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