Etterra,

I’m pretty sure we called dibs on it.

AngryCommieKender,

I mean, The Monroe Doctrine exists.

lars,

Hate hate hate that there’s no one cute unambiguous unabbreviated name for the United States of America:

  • United States: welcome to the large club of other United States
  • America: just like the rest of the Western Hemisphere
  • oh btw United and States or literally mutually exclusive adjectives: United means together; States means not together
aBundleOfFerrets,

Murica’

samus12345,
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No other country has “America” in the name, so “America” works. What other country could it possibly be?

United means together; States means not together

Hence “E pluribus unum.”

AngryCommieKender,

Honestly? If we allow any other territory or country into the union, I personally feel we should rename to The United States of Humanity. The end goal of the US is a Diplomatic victory, since we already have claimed Economic Victory.

Finite,

It’s more likely to be called the United Christian Kingdom, which will be shortened unironically to the UK by the idiots that live here

AngryCommieKender,

Doubtful. They’re a minority these days.

Sorgan71,

there’s no such thing as a pacific or atlantic ocean, only the californian ocean and the floridian ocean

angrymouse,

From 1968 Brazil is not United States anymore, we are a Federative Republic.

onion,

Isn’t a federation a union of states?

angrymouse,

I’m talking about the name, we were “United states of Brazil” from our republic until 1968, after that the name changed to “Federation republic of Brazil”. I’m dont know a lot about how powerful states were back then, so what changed, but today states in Brazil have a little fraction of the independence that US states have.

CptEnder,

Any dispute in the Fauklins about to get ZESTY

MataVatnik,
@MataVatnik@lemmy.world avatar

Argentina’s national anthem we say Provincias Unidas del Sur

vodkasolution,

Finally I see the map on which they study geography!

onion,

My wisdom:

  • “The United States of America” is not a name but a description
    • It’s a bad description since there’s multiple unions of states in america
Hjalamanger,
@Hjalamanger@feddit.nu avatar

And then USA is still a thousand times better then US

Klear,

Tell that to Austria - Österreich. That means “Eastern realm”, since there are no countries more to the East of anything than them. Or hell, Iceland. And Niger is named after the river Niger, which might come from ger-n-ger meaning “river of rivers”, so that’s another wonderfully unambiguous name.

I’m sure there are other great examples.

onion,

Deutschland (Germany) means “land of the people” :D

Klear, (edited )

Meanwhile Czech name for Germans is “Němci”, which means “Those who can’t speak”, as compared to Slavs (Slovani) which is “Those who can speak”.

bigboismith,

Åland (a region of Finland) means “land of rivers”. The are no rivers there

onion,

When you have a dream and a corrupt cartographer

Hjalamanger,
@Hjalamanger@feddit.nu avatar

Also there is Greenland

CptEnder,

It’s funny because our neighbor is also literally called United States, Estados Unidos Mexicanos.

onion,

Yup that’s why I made this post :D

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