• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    11 hours ago

    Pretending to more grammatically correct and calling it “statesman.” lol. We all live in states, whether you’re in the united states of America or not, unless you live in some kind of anarchist or libertarian commune in the ocean or something.

    Language is made up. The term used to refer to people from the USA in English is American essentially everywhere. It doesn’t define anything. That’s just the word used, and that’s OK. For example, ketchup isn’t a fermented fish sauce either, despite the original word possibly meaning that, but you likely wouldn’t complain about that, because we all know what it means and that’s the word we’ve decided to use for it.

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      2 hours ago

      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.