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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours ago

Americans rarely refer to the US as America

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Americans rarely refer to the US as America

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours ago

Maybe this is a regional thing but I’ve always called it the US

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In my country you can know someone’s politics just by knowing if they call people from the USA americanos or estadounidenses.
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  estadounidenses
  
  people actually use this in conversation?
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    When they aren’t USA bootlickers.
    
    ps: This is Portuguese. US is Estados Unidos.
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      Oh I understand the word, it just seems like a lot of syllables.

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