• @onlinepersona
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    -35 months ago

    Give me a term less ambiguous than “American” and I might use it.

    • Cethin
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      55 months ago

      American is pretty unambiguous. What are you getting it mixed up with? No one else uses it. If you hear American, do you have to run through a list of other countries asking them which they are from? Of not, it’s unambiguous.

      You could argue that it shouldn’t be the pronoun for a US citizen, but that’s a different argument than it being ambiguous.

      • @onlinepersona
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        -55 months ago

        Whatever adjective makes you feel better: appropriate, apt, fitting, correct, modest, less expansive, less assuming, less imperious, less opulent, less grandiose, less egocentric, less narcissistic