(June 27, 2016 at 12:33 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote:(June 27, 2016 at 10:52 am)mlmooney89 Wrote: The whole point of names are to call someone what they want to be called. Someone introduces themselves as Mandy but you know their name is legally Amanda you don't call them Amanda you call them Mandy as they asked.[...]
Sure, but if Mandy asks to be addressed as - say - Female, because she's the only woman to call herself that and I can differentiate between her and other women, by calling others by their actual names - I'm going to laugh in her pretentious little face...
South America and North America are both called "America". People who live on those continents are collectively called "Americans". It makes sense, when creating a thread addressed to citizens of - specifically - USA, to be adequately specific in the choice of words, rather than just using one that can refer to all the inhabitants of continents called America.
Of course had I made this thread, I'd use the correct word, one I often hear people born in USA use to describe their nationality - "'Murricans".
First yes Murricans work lol I agree with that.
Second it is more than just figuring out who they are talking about. It is about calling things what they are in the proper way so that you don't come off as an ass. The example you gave is more like three girls all being named Amanda legally but one is Amanda Lea, one is Amanda Marie, and one is just Amanda. Amanda Marie and Amanda Lea are like hey I go by Lea and Marie while just Amanda says no my name is Amanda I don't have another name to go by. But instead someone is like well your full name is Amanda Mooney so I will call you AM... but my name is Amanda and I want to go by Amanda. Too bad there are other Amandas. But they said they would go by other names that specify who they are. Doesn't matter when I say Amanda you will all look. But if I'm the only one going by Amanda... DOESN'T MATTER I have given you a new name and that's all there is to it. So in the end Lea and Marie (ie Canada and Mexico) get to go by what they want and the one that doesn't have another name to go by gets theirs picked for them. It's similar to the Native Americans/Indians but that is a whole other rant of mine. Point is you call someone by what they want to be called. We call ourselves American we should be called American. What you call the other "Americans" like Canada and Mexico has nothing to do with us.
