• poVoq
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    612 months ago

    The US doesn’t have exclusive rights to “America” as a name. In fact strictly speaking “Gulf of America” is not a bad name since it is the largest gulf in the Americas AFAIK.

    • @RememberTheApollo_
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      2 months ago

      Then maybe “Gulf of the Americas” would be more appropriate.

    • Carighan Maconar
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      102 months ago

      True, they’ll probably call it Gulf of 'MURICA!

    • @jg1i
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      2 months ago

      The US doesn’t have exclusive rights to “America” as a name.

      Agreed. Let’s also change our demonym to Unitedstatian.

      • @idiomaddict
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        2 months ago

        That’s also unclear, given the United States of Mexico.

        Edit: I guess we could do Columbian, but I gotta assume Colombia would be annoyed and it’s not exactly descriptive of our foreign policy.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        You joke but in many languages they do that, for instance “statunitensi” or “estadounidenses”

        • @jg1i
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          12 months ago

          I don’t joke actually. I chose “Unitedstatians” exactly because that’s what other languages do.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      Except America has more then one gulf so it isn’t the gulf of America it is one gulf in America.