Remember: America is a continent, not a country...
 

Just to remember the ignorant usa people that America is a continent, not a country.

In German, we say Amerika to name the whole continent.

In Spanish, we say America to name the whole continent.

In Swedish we say Amerika to name the whole continent.

In other 34 languages we use, either America or Amerika to name the whole continent.

In asian language they use the equivalent to America to name the whole continent.

The only ignorants are those from USA (80% of this forum, lol, I will get a lot of hate replies) who think that America is USA... :1orglaugh

They will never learn, and I don't fucking care. I just want to make the other 20% know, that US citizen were, are, and will always be a bunch of ignorant idiots.

Even British maps show that America is a continent, not a dumb ignorant country.

So, we can say that it's not a problem from the english culture, but from the USA empty and stupid culture. :1orglaugh

Now, let's see all those US guys who will start feeding this thread with hate. :pimp

where is that america? search engines gives no results :Oh crap :thumbsup

Okie dokie, cretin.

Any difference between North and South?

It is a continent......NORTH America......and there is even a.....SOUTH
America....wow amazing

Its an English language problem.

In common usage, in most "English" speaking countries "America" refers to the USA.

You are also wrong when you say it refers to a 'continent' - it refers to 'continents'.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh !!

100% agreed :thumbsup

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4w9EksAo5hY

lol - didn't have a clue what was going on - but it was still pretty funny.

lay off the creatine

yes, there are two continents at least, not just one.

Wunderbar!!! :1orglaugh

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Do you find that you get bloated from the creatine?

I think we have got that now......

If here that jerk off statement again. So all the euros are complaining how fuck up the world do they say "those damn USAers are at igain" or do the " death to America"


I hate pretentious qusi-educated duchbags and 1and1

10 million sperm shot into his mom and this guy is the one that made it...unbelieveable!

no need for the hate, you made yourself look like an idiot, anyone who thinks millions of people all think the same just because they live in the same area is a fucking idiot anyway.

America is considered one continent, so you are wrong. America is not a country.

Are you from USA? :upsidedow

You need to learn to use the interweb. Go back to primary school. :1orglaugh

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9rica

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika_%28Kontinent%29

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9rique

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika

http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/America

Just to name a few...

Funny thing.....If I say I'm from America...You Know where I'm talking about

Citing from one of your own sources, cretin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Continents

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America

haha what a worthless thread why am I even reading this

You are an idiot.
All dictionaries define it as it can refer to The United States


Main Entry: Amer·i·ca
Pronunciation: &-'mer-&-k&
Usage: geographical name
1 either continent (N. America or S. America) of the western hemisphere
2 or the Amer·i·cas /-k&z/ the lands of the western hemisphere including N., Central, & S. America & the W. Indies
3 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
http://www.britannica.com/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=america&query=americ a

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/america

I guess canada doesn't count? Moron.

I almost always say USA when I refer to where I live

Yep.

They don't refer to "The Americas" for nothing.

:winkwink: :thumbsup

This sounds good enough to attract the usual purveyors of bile, spew and hate - where are ya Splum and that other thing from TN with the schoolgirl fantasies?? :1orglaugh

Just keep the Molsons coming :winkwink:

So we have this:


And finally the brilliant, thoughtful conclusion

"Do you love me?" - Do you like it like this?"

Sorry I was watching "Dirty Dancing".........

and yet I can still call you a moron without fear of contradiction.

What does that say about you?

why don't u make the two america into one..I mean merge north america and south america into America......like...........Germany

Since we is be so ignant. I guess that none of the amerikan companies will be able to cut you a check, or wire you money, or epass it to you.

So Fuck off.
Broke ass bitch hater.

Actually you are wrong. I have relatives in Italy, Spain, Cuba, England and Germany. They do not say America to the whole continent because they are educated. We are a part of a continent, North America. Our country is the United States of America. We do not make up the whole continent.

I completely disagree. It is people from other countries who started the trend of calling the united states "America". For years I resisted doing the same, but after talking to so many people from outside my country and noticing they do it a lot more than people from the united states I gave up.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

*lol*

Actually agree... just thinking... most of the people I know refer to the US as either "the states" or "USA".

Sounds "odd" if eg.. you said to were flying to "America" - they'd prob wonder what you were trying to hide about the destination :1orglaugh

Since 80% of the forum uses the term, and understands that the United States of America, the United States, and America can be used interchangably; I think you're the one in the wrong.

It all depends on the context in which it is used, but since you don't understand what context is, you see all words as concrete. As a tip from me to you, all words are NOT concrete.

Go back to primary school, Ignorant "USA citizen" lol.........

USA educational system is so fucked up, that most people in usa, don't even know that there is a world, outside usa... :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

For example, they think that Mexico is Latin America. Or that Brazil is South America. :1orglaugh What a bunch of idiots. The most ignorant people in this world. Thanks to their shitty educational system.

u are pathetic.

Gawd bless Jesusland :1orglaugh

Exactly!

Yeah, that's why we are the most advanced and richest country in the world and now please name all states of the USA as you sure know them. If we should know every small country in the world you should know every US state as most of those states are bigger then many countries out there...

You forgot to post the name of the beautiful country where you are from. Let's hear it!

Well, it is the United States OF America. The Big Mac of McDonalds isn't called McDonalds. It's called a Big Mac.

Anyway, the only reason for the confusion is the fact that the US has never really had a name, it has a description. Canada is a name. Mexico is a name. The United States is what they are. A bunch of states that are united together. And therefore, they became the United States of America. But they could have just as easily been the United States of North America.

Think about it... how many countries do you know that is a description of what they are, rather than a proper name?

I'm surprised they refer to themselves as Americans instead of "sacks of mostly water".

Neither of these statements has much bearing on why the US calls itself America nor much bearing on his initial statement. Infact, your statements are akin to "Yeah well, my dad can beat up your dad!"

Venezuela? :winkwink: :1orglaugh

America refers to the country, like Americans refers to its citizens. North America relates to the continent, like North Americans relates to the citizens of the countries in the continent.

Simple really.

I think your opening statement of "In blah blah we say blah blah to name the whole continent" shows how the details get lost in translation. There is no continent called America, theres North & South America.

When I look at a dollar bill, I see " United States of America "

When I look at a passport,I see " United States of America "

...and so on ....

Europeans are residents of Europe ... It can be a French , an Italian , a German... but they all are EUROPEANS , tough their countries are France, Italy and Germany respectively....

:2 cents:

SOME FACTS ABOUT THE USA

Ranked 3rd in total land

Ranked 3rd in total population

Largest GDP in the world (the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year)

Largest GDP (nominal) which is the GDP nominalized based on currency exchange rates
the United States was ranked as the third most visited tourist destination in the world

IMD International: World Competitiveness Yearbook 2004 (http://www01.imd.ch/wcy/), Rank 1 out of 60 economies (countries and regions)

World Economic Forum: Global Competitiveness Report 2004-2005 (http://www.weforum.org/site/homepubl...iveness+Report) - Growth Competitiveness Index Ranking, Rank 2 out of 104 countries

UNDP: Human Development Index 2004 (http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2004/), Rank 8 out of 177 countries

Save the Children: State of the World?s Mothers 2004 (http://www.savethechildren.org/mothe...004_final.pdf), Rank 10 out of 119 countries

Transparency International: Corruption Perceptions Index 2004 (http://www.transparency.org/pressrel...0.cpi.en.html), Rank 17 out of 146 countries (tied with Belgium and Ireland)

Reporters without borders: Third annual worldwide press freedom index (2004) (http://www.rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article=11715), Rank 22 (American territory; tied with Belgium) & 108 (in Iraq) out of 167 countries

97% literacy rate

4th largest labor force

2nd largest exports ? $714,500,000,000

Largest imports - $ 1,260,000,000,000

Largest donor of economic aid throughout the world $6.9 billion

Largest number of internet hosts, 115,311,958 more than quadrupling that of the 2nd place European Union
2nd largest number of internet users 159,000,000 (206,032,067 for the whole European Union)

Largest total military expenditures, but we?re 37th per capita

269 billionaires ? close to 10x that of #2 Japan

11th ?cleanest countries?

#1 country with the most computers ? almost 4x that of #2 Japan

#1 nobel prize winners (270), more than 2.5x that of #2 UK

Athletes with the most Olympic Medals ? almost 2x that of USSR, almost 4x that of #3 UK

6th highest quality of life

#2 highest per-capita income

#1 most university students, almost 3x that of #2 India, almost 5x that of #3 Japan

#2 most universities

#2 most visited by tourists

#3 country with most workers

The world?s largest source of humanitarian aid ? 15.8billion ? almost 2x as much as #2 Japan (These figures do not include aid to Afghanistan, Iraq or world food aid, which the United States is the largest contributor.)


When your piddly shit little country can beat all of these statistics, you can come back and post your Anti-USA bullshit.

off topic ....

What is the name of your country?

meathead + first time reading a book = dumb thread:thumbsup