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What would you like to change about Lemmy culture? (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you use it differently you are in conflict with the entire anglosphere. You can make that complaint if you're not speaking English, but in English, the primary meaning of "America" is the United States.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Also Italian.

... Not that there's much of an Italosphere but "Americano" vuol dire "Person from the United States"