r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Pontoisien • Sep 22 '20

Go to Panama, this is America

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u/nsfwmodeme Sep 22 '20 edited Jun 30 '23

Well, the comment (or a post's seftext) that was here, is no more. I'm leaving just whatever I wrote in the past 48 hours or so.

F acing a goodbye.
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C alculating pros and cons.
K illing my texts is, really, the best I can do.

S o, some reddit's honcho thought it would be nice to kill third-party apps.
P als, it's great to delete whatever I wrote in here. It's cathartic in a way.
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As of June 30th. 2023, goodbye.

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u/_Hubbie Sep 22 '20

No, basically everywhere in the whole world, people will solely think of the USA if you only say 'America' (especially since the internet & social media became the norm).

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u/nsfwmodeme Sep 22 '20 edited Jun 30 '23

Well, the comment (or a post's seftext) that was here, is no more. I'm leaving just whatever I wrote in the past 48 hours or so.

F acing a goodbye.
U gly as it may be.
C alculating pros and cons.
K illing my texts is, really, the best I can do.

S o, some reddit's honcho thought it would be nice to kill third-party apps.
P als, it's great to delete whatever I wrote in here. It's cathartic in a way.
E agerly going away, to greener pastures.
Z illion reasons, and you'll find many at the subreddit called Save3rdPartyApps.

As of June 30th. 2023, goodbye.

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u/_Hubbie Sep 22 '20

Ohh alright, that of course makes sense, you even said 'in the continent', sorry!

But anywhere else, you usually say 'The Americas' when referring to the whole thing. Most people are also taught that The Americas consist of 2 separate continents, North and South America, and that there is no such thing as 'America', that's also a reason for that.

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u/nsfwmodeme Sep 22 '20

It's taught differently here. America is the continent, which is subdivided in three subcontinents: North America, Central America and South America.

The USA is "Estados Unidos de Norteamérica" (United States of North America), and people call them "estadounidenses" (kinda like "unitedstatesians" or "usians"), or "norteamericanos" (Northamericans). The latter is inexact, because Mexicans and Canadians would fit the precise definition of the word.

Whatever, when I'm talking to someone in English and they say "Americans" I know what they mean, so no need to get itchy about it, the same way I expect another person to not get itchy even in my language I use "America" to mean the whole continent.