Like I said, English speakers.
English isn’t the only language, and in most other languages it’s closer to Statesman.
As I stated in a comment below, it’s like having the one friend who burst into the room and declaring himself ‘the Bossman guy’ and every other nation in the world was like "okay Kyle, we’ll call you the Bossman Guy since your parents are rich and you’re a violent bully and we don’t want to fight you on your identity issues.
And yes, language is always evolving, that’s how it works.
The demonym for a German in English is German, despite it being Deutsch in German. Is this an issue?
As I stated in a comment below, it’s like having the one friend who burst into the room and declaring himself ‘the Bossman guy’ and every other nation in the world was like "okay Kyle, we’ll call you the Bossman Guy since your parents are rich and you’re a violent bully and we don’t want to fight you on your identity issues.
No one is telling other language speakers what to say. I English it’s the dymonym of someone from the USA is American though, and it has been for a very long time, before it was even the nation of the USA, when it was still “British America.” it wasn’t force or violence that made it happen, and that makes you look very ignorant. It shows your clearly just making this stand as some anti-america (which I have problems with too) position, not from an actual position of logic and reason.
Again, we all live in states, so how is statesman any less confusing than American? It’s arguably significantly worse as it implies membership to far more people than it actually includes.
This is the same thing as when people get upset about saying ‘chai tea’ or ‘hound dog’
It was originally something else, people from a certain place used it differently, and now it’s its own word. I was being snarky, I myself use ‘American,’ at the end of the day, who cares?
Fair enough. There’s a lot of tankie here that make the same argument as you, but because they just hate the US. Their preferred term is usually USAsian though, so maybe I should have recognized you weren’t one of them.
Like I said, English speakers. English isn’t the only language, and in most other languages it’s closer to Statesman.
As I stated in a comment below, it’s like having the one friend who burst into the room and declaring himself ‘the Bossman guy’ and every other nation in the world was like "okay Kyle, we’ll call you the Bossman Guy since your parents are rich and you’re a violent bully and we don’t want to fight you on your identity issues.
And yes, language is always evolving, that’s how it works.
And we’re speaking English…
The demonym for a German in English is German, despite it being Deutsch in German. Is this an issue?
No one is telling other language speakers what to say. I English it’s the dymonym of someone from the USA is American though, and it has been for a very long time, before it was even the nation of the USA, when it was still “British America.” it wasn’t force or violence that made it happen, and that makes you look very ignorant. It shows your clearly just making this stand as some anti-america (which I have problems with too) position, not from an actual position of logic and reason.
Again, we all live in states, so how is statesman any less confusing than American? It’s arguably significantly worse as it implies membership to far more people than it actually includes.
I’m not anti-america.
This is the same thing as when people get upset about saying ‘chai tea’ or ‘hound dog’
It was originally something else, people from a certain place used it differently, and now it’s its own word. I was being snarky, I myself use ‘American,’ at the end of the day, who cares?
Fair enough. There’s a lot of tankie here that make the same argument as you, but because they just hate the US. Their preferred term is usually USAsian though, so maybe I should have recognized you weren’t one of them.