Philippe

[Philippe @PhilippebSTRAS]

@Cristiangallent @ArgenZam @ArtCandee I'll even go a step further: estadounidense is a stilted exonym that makes little sense in the broader context of global demonyms, which—except in the case of the United States—almost always refer to a cultural identity and a geographic location, not to a form of government.

[Philippe @PhilippebSTRAS]

@Cristiangallent @ArgenZam @ArtCandee Address formatting has practical conventions that help postal workers process mail efficiently. Ex. While Farm to Market is widely understood in its local context, if you're sending something from outside that region better to write FM and keep it simple.

[Philippe @PhilippebSTRAS]

@Cristiangallent @ArgenZam @ArtCandee If you send a postcard to "America" or "Mexico" or "Brazil" you're going go get a return to sender. I don't get your point.

[Philippe @PhilippebSTRAS]

@Cristiangallent @ArgenZam @ArtCandee Not to mention a soda:

[Philippe @PhilippebSTRAS]

@Cristiangallent @ArgenZam @ArtCandee On the other hand, meaning depends on context. Americano can be a coffee, of course. America can be a person, a city, a country or a continent.

[Philippe @PhilippebSTRAS]

@Cristiangallent @ArgenZam @ArtCandee If Latin Americans want to adopt it later on, that’s fine. And if ideas of citizenship or geographic belonging shift so people start calling themselves "African," "European," whatever—that’s fine too. But let’s not pretend Americans are stealing a name.

[Philippe @PhilippebSTRAS]

@Cristiangallent @ArgenZam @ArtCandee Yes? America has been used for centuries along with other competing toponyms. Still the idea of being "American" as in a person native of the American continent comes specifically from the United States. Americano meant a Spanish colonist, for example.

[Philippe @PhilippebSTRAS]

@Cristiangallent @ArgenZam @ArtCandee I'm not talking anecdotes—every major European dictionary shows American (translated) can mean someone from the U.S. Dictionaries reflect actual usage. Metageography and linguistically-driven political agendas be dammed.

[Philippe @PhilippebSTRAS]

@Cristiangallent @ArgenZam @ArtCandee No, Latin America is both a geographical and a cultural division. But it doesn't even matter.

[Philippe @PhilippebSTRAS]

@Cristiangallent @ArgenZam @ArtCandee All you have is insults and condescension.

[Philippe @PhilippebSTRAS]

@Cristiangallent @ArgenZam @ArtCandee The term Americano took on a different meaning in the wake of the Ameican Revolution and through the influence of the United States in Latin America's later fight for independence. Source: https://t.co/4zeb5boAsf

[Philippe @PhilippebSTRAS]

@mandaloriano4 @I_lomil_o @nometiente2 @javiersilva0826 @PopBase Entonces estás esperando que EEUU cambie su nombre histórico porque a ti no te gusta utilizar el mismo gentilicio para dos cosas diferentes? 🤷

[Philippe @PhilippebSTRAS]

@el_os @TrogloditaDP @AJEnglish @HodaAH For those who argue that people from the United States are geographically imprecise in their use of demonyms, it's worth noting that the term 'American' predates any standardized model of the continents.

[Philippe @PhilippebSTRAS]

@el_os @TrogloditaDP @AJEnglish @HodaAH One often overlooked point: the way we divide the world into continents reflects historical metageography. While the idea dates back to antiquity, it wasn’t until the mid-19th century that geographical standardization truly fixed the modern continental model.