• @onlinepersona
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    05 months ago

    USAian reads better than USAn 🤷 And I’m not going to type out “United Statesman” every time I want to refer to something USAian like a car. “United Statesman car”.

    • Eggyhead
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      05 months ago

      “USAian” doesn’t read better than anything when it’s a made up word that looks ridiculous. Just say “a US car” or “American”.

        • Eggyhead
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          05 months ago

          lol alright then. Good luck dictating how a language operates.

          • @onlinepersona
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            15 months ago

            Like you were trying to dictate how I speak? Yeah, I won’t be doing that.

            • Eggyhead
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              15 months ago

              No, my dude. You just seemed like a non-native speaker of English and I was trying to help you out. It’s what I do for a living. I’ll be happy to teach “USAian” to my students if it ever becomes commonplace vernacular that they would likely hear on the streets. Unfortunately since it’s kind of grammatically nonsensical and weirder to both say and understand, that might take a whole lot more effort to accomplish than you seem to think it will. Good luck though. I find linguistic evolution interesting, so I won’t stop you.

              • @onlinepersona
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                15 months ago

                I see now where you were coming from. It would’ve helped to ask if I was a non-native speaker.

                Nobody’s forcing anybody to say USAian. It’s a personal preference and it gets the point across.