On 5/23/2016 12:50 PM, Nicolas George wrote:
Le quintidi 5 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
American? There are two continents. Do you mean the U.S.A? - the land of
the rooster and other euphemistic terms?
What becomes of Canada and Mexico in that scenario??
A friend of mine suggested "United States of Puritania" for the demonymless
country between Canada and Mexico.
Maybe I'm just not creative enough.
If it was not a commonly accepted reference to the United States of
America, there would
be no "America".
You would have 'American continents' plural. You would have 'The
Americas' plural.
I can't think of a usage that makes sense to collectively refer to
people from two
separate continents and a region of land that connects them as 'American'.
What am I missing?! ;)
Later, Seeker
