Language can be powerful in shaping ideas and the US has convinced the entire world that they are the “Americans” and everybody else on the 2 continents aren’t.

  • rzadkie@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    You anglophones are rather fucked with the lack of common slurs for the burgerriechians. In polish I’ve been using usańczycy (usanian equivalent) for quite some time, we also have hamerykanie - good, old one that underlines their hubris and vanity, but as of late I just use hitlerites. Considering The Great Satan - great meaning altough imo sounds too cool