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| Sheath/IcyGamma - America lol |
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| IsaacKronenFaust:
--- Quote from: Pulchritude on January 30, 2011, 05:58:54 PM ---Lurn2history. In addition to leading the Industrial Revolution, England had the largest empire the world has ever seen, spanning over a quarter of the world's land area. The phrase "The sun never set on the British Empire" was actually true. --- End quote --- Don't loving tell me to "lurn2" something. Currently, the Overseas Territories of Britain are not part of the United Kingdom itself, so they don't count toward population or area. --- Quote from: Colten on January 30, 2011, 06:03:51 PM ---America refers to the United States. Now if he had said something about North America or South America vs Britain you may have made more sense --- End quote --- America is the same as saying Americas, which refers to both North and South continents. It's laziness and unwillingness to find an actual name for U.S. Citizens that makes people call them "Americans." |
| Jacky:
god bless america land that i love stand beside her and guide her through the night with a light from above through the mountains, through the prairies through the oceans white with foam |
| IsaacKronenFaust:
No Edit: Just to be fair, "America" can't use Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, or others to its pop. or area. |
| Visage:
--- Quote from: IsaacKronenFaust on January 30, 2011, 06:11:58 PM ---Don't loving tell me to "lurn2" something. Currently, the Overseas Territories of Britain are not part of the United Kingdom itself, so they don't count toward population or area. America is the same as saying Americas, which refers to both North and South continents. It's laziness and unwillingness to find an actual name for U.S. Citizens that makes people call them "Americans." --- End quote --- You think that because America is a word in North America and South America, American and America have any relation to them. You couldn't be more wrong. American was a word created to mean people from the United States, and America is nothing more than short word for United States of America. American only means people from the United States. There is no implied meaning that we are the only people of North America and South America, but we are the only Americans, and by Americans we mean people from the United States. We don't have to create a new word for us because some people are too stupid to grasp this. |
| IsaacKronenFaust:
Why would it be "short" for the United States of America? The reason they call it that is because it is a country comprised of many states formed into one, and they are within the landmasses of North and South America, which together they are called America or the Americas. It really does not make sense to call the country the same thing that the two continents are called when viewed together! I may be ignoring what this loving world calls this nation, but at least I'm being logical about it. |
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