Maybe this is a regional thing but I’ve always called it the US
Safe to just call it shithole now.
Thought we were calling it Amerikkka or the imperial core.
Only if you are a tankie
At least tankies have interesting thoughts…
I refer to it as “the US”, but refer to myself as an “American.”
I’m a US citizen and lived there most of my life but refuse to call myself American. I’d rather call myself after my home state or country of birth, but saying you’re from the US is an embarrassment. That country never did anything for me anyways, I spent my life fighting against it
I no longer live in the US
Sir this is Wendy’s
Sir (or madam), they are not a “sir.”
Sir this is Wendy’s
Semantically America is the continent and the US(A) is the country, so I try to say US(A) when I refer to the country or it’s citizens
Because I’ve been told by people of the other nations of these two continents that it bugs them and I had a nice and easy alternative
I hear “The states,” “The US,” and “America” equally used here in Cali. Almost never do I hear “The USA” unless it’s said like “the good 'ol US of A.”
I use “the U.S.” or “States”.
There’s more than one America.
Definitely a regional thing.
Most notably, the region of the United States in the Americas.
I’ve noticed this too but it seems like a left vs right thing. But never “the USA”
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US Americans seem to refer to themselves as “Americans” a lot on social media. Or they refer to themselves as “the world” like in “this icecream is the best in the world” (without having visited any other country for a significant time to be able to compare). In Europe, US Americans are referred to by different names: the popular „yanks“, the German “Amis” (die spinnen doch, die Amis), depends on the country. The prevalence of new names is increasing rapidly, e.g. Trumpists, US twerks, dropkicks.
The “World Series” of baseball is the example I would use. All but one team is based in the US.
In my country you can know someone’s politics just by knowing if they call people from the USA americanos or estadounidenses.
I’ve seen estadounidense in a Spanish newspaper before, and for some reason this word is very hard for me to spell.
In French too, there’s “états-unien” (also spelled “étatsunien”). It’s little known and rarely used (in France). I have no idea if it’s more often used by left-leaning speakers. (I do use it from time to time, and I think it can be useful to avoid ambiguity.) I can imagine its use being more common and more political in Québec, compared to France where I live?
While writing this comment, I stumbled on a letter from a very angry listener who wrote to the French public radio “arbitrator” (don’t know if it’s the right word) to complain about a guest using the word “étatZunien” (his spelling) several times (gasp) on the air. Apparently, the listener believed the word to be made up, and he wasn’t the only one who wrote to complain about it.
And the arbitrator’s like “um, dude, it’s a real word, it’s in the dictionary since 1961”.
There’s no point linking to that here, really — the letter’s all written in very incoherent French — but it made me laugh.
estadounidenses
people actually use this in conversation?
When they aren’t imperialist bootlickers.
ps: In Portuguese, United States is Estados Unidos - hence estadounidense.
