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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 (3 children)

I, as an American, write "The US" the refer to the country specifically to avoid confusion. But there's not really another good demonym that's not an slur. "Estadosunidenses" is too much of a mouthful and "Statesman" has another meaning.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It always feels odd to me that the Spanish demonym specifically is that when Mexico is also "Estados Unidos Mexicanos", or the United Mexican States

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But there’s not really another good demonym that’s not an slur. “Estadosunidenses” is too much of a mouthful and “Statesman” has another meaning.

Usonian?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

TIL that this architectural style came from Frank Lloyd Wright's use of this neologism, which seems to have originated with Scottish writer James Duff Law in 1865. And, that people have been trying to make this change happen for over 150 years. (Seems to me a review of the tale of King Canute and the tide is in order.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How would that be pronounced?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Like "Usonian", not like "USonian", I'd guess? Flat U, non-"yoo"-ed; stress on the O; the "nian" more or less like "nyan" but 'murrically less cute.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I mean, 'cracker' isn't really a slur given your average White Amerikan still tacitly and vociferously supports slavery via support for "tough-on-crime" politicians that funnel subjects-of-empire through the for-profit prison system/carceral slavery complex.

I just call 'em what they are at this point.

"I am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done." -- John Brown