The one and only United States of America

Comments

• onion@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

  source

  • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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. 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.

    source

    • onion@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

      source

      • -> View More Comments
  • CptEnder@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

    source

    • onion@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yup that’s why I made this post :D

      source
  • Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And then USA is still a thousand times better then US

    source
• angrymouse@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

  source

  • onion@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn’t a federation a union of states?

    source

    • angrymouse@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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 dont have a fraction of the independence that US states have.

      source
• lars@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

  source

  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

    source

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Honestly? If we allow any other territory or country into the union, I personally feel we should rename to The United States of Humanity.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
  • aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Murica’

    source
• vodkasolution@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Finally I see the map on which they study geography!

  source
• Sorgan71@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

  source
• MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Argentina’s national anthem we say Provincias Unidas del Sur

  source
• CptEnder@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Any dispute in the Fauklins about to get ZESTY

  source
• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure we called dibs on it.

  source

  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, The Monroe Doctrine exists.

    source