Venia Silente

Before or after your childhood rival smells ya later?

I’m willing to excuse their faults. They mostly do it out of the consequences of colonialism and cultural appropriation. That’s just as much as saying they do it because of the barrel of a gun.

That said most proposals I’ve seen on the subject are… silly or unwirldy. I’m not gonna call people from the US “estadounidense” (looooong) or “USAmerican” (uppercases) unless they tell me they’re OK with it. I’d be fine with otherwise distinguising eg.: something like “American” vs “Américan”, since English has been fine with diacritics for a good while of centuries already (née, naïve, blasé, etc).

Do you have a good source on that? Every school book and college book I’ve ever checked, plus Encarta and Wikipedia, explicitly state that it is one continent.

America is the whole continent. You guys just fenced the worst part of it.

Everyone has already given their response so there’s nothing really to add other than, well, there’s lots of reasons to justify piracy. Most of them are even provided by the publishers / distributors themselves!

Also it’s weird to browse the top 10 responses or even below, and NOT see this xkcd posted or even linked. What is going on, Lemmy?