That's not a geography question then, that's an English question (and it has been argued that "America" can still refer to the continent and technically there's a Brazil inside the US). Are you surprised that non-native speakers don't get such subtle differences? It's still a foreign language to us, no matter how much it's used on the internet.Argh wrote:Um, did everybody not notice that most people have gotten this completely wrong? There are two "Americas", when one is speaking of continents
Where is Brazil?
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SwiftSpear
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Maby it can, but it shouldn't be. It's pretty much generically incorrect to refer to the American continents as "America".KDR_11k wrote:That's not a geography question then, that's an English question (and it has been argued that "America" can still refer to the continent and technically there's a Brazil inside the US). Are you surprised that non-native speakers don't get such subtle differences? It's still a foreign language to us, no matter how much it's used on the internet.Argh wrote:Um, did everybody not notice that most people have gotten this completely wrong? There are two "Americas", when one is speaking of continents
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LathanStanley
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They are North America, South America, and "The Americas"... not "America" we reserved that one for the US only.SwiftSpear wrote:Maby it can, but it shouldn't be. It's pretty much generically incorrect to refer to the American continents as "America".KDR_11k wrote:That's not a geography question then, that's an English question (and it has been argued that "America" can still refer to the continent and technically there's a Brazil inside the US). Are you surprised that non-native speakers don't get such subtle differences? It's still a foreign language to us, no matter how much it's used on the internet.Argh wrote:Um, did everybody not notice that most people have gotten this completely wrong? There are two "Americas", when one is speaking of continents
get a clue man...
this poll sucks.
Fix your language please.LathanStanley wrote:They are North America, South America, and "The Americas"... not "America" we reserved that one for the US only.SwiftSpear wrote:Maby it can, but it shouldn't be. It's pretty much generically incorrect to refer to the American continents as "America".KDR_11k wrote: That's not a geography question then, that's an English question (and it has been argued that "America" can still refer to the continent and technically there's a Brazil inside the US). Are you surprised that non-native speakers don't get such subtle differences? It's still a foreign language to us, no matter how much it's used on the internet.
get a clue man...
this poll sucks.
I thought it was pretty commonly accepted that "North America" and "South America" were two different continents.
Ive never in my whole life heard someone refer to Canada or Brazil or any other country in north or south America as simply being in "America".
edit: who the hell says "the americas". This isnt 1600
Ive never in my whole life heard someone refer to Canada or Brazil or any other country in north or south America as simply being in "America".
edit: who the hell says "the americas". This isnt 1600
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LathanStanley
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The guys who named USA should have tough about that before naming it :)hunterw wrote:nobodyIshach wrote:
edit: who the hell says "the americas". This isnt 1600
america without the prefix north or south means USA
also, american means someone from USA...what are people supposed to say? united states of americanites?
Most people accept america as USA and americans as people from USA, but thats not really right. America was supposed to mean the continent and americans people who live in this continent. And I think that America is considered a single continent, but subdivided in smaller ones because of its shape and leght.
Try "Statemen", sounds noble and dignified! 
Sorry, I hope I'm not giving the impression I'm anti-American or pro-Canadian even, seriously I'm not. I'm just shocked at the state of the world in general and the public's acceptance/ignorance of the situation. It's sickening. When we discuss Americans, the foremost things are the ones I mentioned: blissful ignorance of the state of the world at large, and a totally ineffectual governing body. As another poster stated, there's just a few thousand people in power, all with totally different agendas that vary depending on what's popular or will give them political points at any given time.
Now, if we want to discuss Canada, we've got largely the same situation. There are really only 3 or 4 notable political parties, and that just means there's 3 or 4 lying conglomerates rather than 1 or 2. The only thing Canada's really ahead on is its leader's ability to shut the **** up at appropriate moments and not looking like a nuke-horny cowboy imbecile. Gotta have nukes in the first place in order to get nuke-horny.
Ah... I can't discuss this political nonsense anymore, it makes me get depressed thinking about it.
Clearly we all need to move to Sweden, they've got it right
Sorry, I hope I'm not giving the impression I'm anti-American or pro-Canadian even, seriously I'm not. I'm just shocked at the state of the world in general and the public's acceptance/ignorance of the situation. It's sickening. When we discuss Americans, the foremost things are the ones I mentioned: blissful ignorance of the state of the world at large, and a totally ineffectual governing body. As another poster stated, there's just a few thousand people in power, all with totally different agendas that vary depending on what's popular or will give them political points at any given time.
Now, if we want to discuss Canada, we've got largely the same situation. There are really only 3 or 4 notable political parties, and that just means there's 3 or 4 lying conglomerates rather than 1 or 2. The only thing Canada's really ahead on is its leader's ability to shut the **** up at appropriate moments and not looking like a nuke-horny cowboy imbecile. Gotta have nukes in the first place in order to get nuke-horny.
Ah... I can't discuss this political nonsense anymore, it makes me get depressed thinking about it.
Clearly we all need to move to Sweden, they've got it right
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Lindir The Green
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America was supposed to mean whatever people think it means; that's how language works.manored wrote:America was supposed to mean the continent and americans people who live in this continent. And I think that America is considered a single continent, but subdivided in smaller ones because of its shape and leght.
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SwiftSpear
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That's not correct. Language evolves. The north and south American continents haven't been referred to as "America" for more than 100 years. There is no longer an American continent. America ONLY refers to the USA now.manored wrote:The guys who named USA should have tough about that before naming it :)hunterw wrote:nobodyIshach wrote:
edit: who the hell says "the americas". This isnt 1600
america without the prefix north or south means USA
also, american means someone from USA...what are people supposed to say? united states of americanites?
Most people accept america as USA and americans as people from USA, but thats not really right. America was supposed to mean the continent and americans people who live in this continent. And I think that America is considered a single continent, but subdivided in smaller ones because of its shape and leght.
Or not http://www.snotr.com/video/41Caydr wrote:Clearly we all need to move to Sweden, they've got it right
US Americans. That's what the media uses here.hunterw wrote:nobodyIshach wrote:
edit: who the hell says "the americas". This isnt 1600
america without the prefix north or south means USA
also, american means someone from USA...what are people supposed to say? united states of americanites?
Your language is so broken that "America" refers to a single country. MAEK PATCH!LathanStanley wrote:MY LANGUAGE WAS WRONG?...KDR_11k wrote:Fix your language please.
HAR!
You ain't been to Texas have ya son?
You got some learnin to do...
what I said, was, polite.
You don't wanna hear me cussin...