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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY They also use it for between Mexico and South America. It's considered a region of North America. I think Middle America's the term for north of Texas

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY India referred for thousands of years to the entire subcontinent including Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The Republic of India took the name in 1947. Now people use India in historical (and some other) context to mean subcontinent and in most others country

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY British India included what's now Burma. India is a subcontinent, but that doesn't invalidate calling the Republic of India just India and its citizens Indians

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY The US uses the term Central America though

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY King Porus was from what's now Pakistan. See his Wiki: https://t.co/1gIuSDToG4

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY Panini was born in what is now Pakistan. Look at what civilization he was from: https://t.co/8BpyG4Gg6i

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY Buddha was born in what's now Nepal, but people say he was born in India because that's the subcontinent and civilization

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY This goes back to the India analogy. India historically meant the whole subcontinent (Republic of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka). The Republic of India adopted the name in 1947 and now that's what Indian means when speaking of nationality

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY The only country in the Americas when Americans started calling themselves that was their country. Everywhere else was European sovereignty. Americans were originally only people in the US

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY Likewise, India is a subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka) but is also a country (Republic of India) founded in 1947. It's not invalid to say Indians (in terms of nationality) are citizens of the Republic

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY Goûter, gustare, and gustar are the same word but gustar has different meaning. 노트북 in Korean is loanword of English notebook but means laptop

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY Quebec is francophone, so they use a different model from 80% of Canada. When they speak English, they follow English convention

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY I visited Costa Rica once. It's a lovely country

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY Ok. I just don't like that in most of the world we see the Americas as separate and we use America (or a cognate) to mean the US and people from the Spanish speaking countries tell us we're wrong or not using English correctly even if they're not native speakers either

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY The very first definition says short for USA

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY They are because they have different usages and therefore meanings in their respective languages

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY The Canadian education system teaches America is not a continent and that Canada's identity isn't American

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY One being more common in a language means you're not supposed to nitpick and correct people over them using it

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY Look at where my account is. I'm not going to cater to the pedantry of people a hemisphere away

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@CruzHarlock @PamphletsY If you insist anglophones learning Spanish adopt your word, that's fine. What's not so is when we both use lingua franca and you say we're misusing a word even though that word's consistent with a cognate in our own language and is what most people around the world use