Split from viewtopic.php?f=8&t=152595&start=10#p1709874 For people from English-speaking countries, “America” universally means the USA. For people from Spanish-speaking countries, “America” universally means North and South America. That’s all there is to it.

[image] noWhiners: Wait - this isn’t the ‘We shouldn’t have public forums because I disagree with some of the posts’ thread anymore… I was trying to loop back to the original thread; going for sarcastic irony points - sorry Hey, nothing wrong with rehashing. Just didn’t want you to think you…

yea, I don’t I don’t understand - I don’t know what you mean to tell me. (?) The sentence you quoted begins with ‘people’. You could substitute that with ‘we’. Or everybody, even us Americans. We all do that now and again.

Now that we’re friends, can I tell people to get off my lawn? That’s a great line

[image] noWhiners: Now that we’re friends, can I tell people to get off my lawn? That’s a great line I don’t believe I’ve ever used that line, so I’m probably the wrong one to ask for permission. Shit, I don’t even have a lawn.

[image] I would very much like an alternative forum that was much more heavily regulated [image] I would very much like an alternative forum that was much more heavily regulated But heyre wrong. They’re not. The country is referred to as America if it’s used in that context. Just like PRC i…

[image] Explant: But it is simply wrong. It’s not wrong. It’s been adapted into the common English language for a long time now.

Things change. Everybody doing something doesn’t make it right. Means its common.

[image] noWhiners: Everybody doing something doesn’t make it right It makes it right because language is used for communication.

Yep, there is no right, people establish language through usage.

…and language changes. Dost thou thinkest not? More recently, helluva to hella

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