Because the USA totally wasn't named after the man who drew the map and the USA absolutely didn't exist before South and Central Americas.
I think the correct name shuld be United States of North America
but we dont have a time machine :(
Did he even explain why?
this is why i don't like americansthey only think about themselves
"They don't like my suggestions therefor all Americans are jerks that only think about themselves not not ME! Boo hoo."
Just use teamspeak or skype and save developers the headache of rewriting the entire code.
There are alternates such as Steam or Ventrilo.
something along the lines of"i'm not rewriting the entire engine just so you can spew your crappy symbols"