Chris is.Nov 28
I’m amused that USians are so sensitive that there’s a whole-ass blocklist on Bluesky for those of us who use “USian”
Show threadmajickNov 28

@offby1 I mean, it's an irksome juvenile term—like calling "San Francisco" "Frisco"—that makes me somewhat more likely to ignore someone's opinions but I can't imagine needing a public blocklist for it.

I'ma block what I block but whining about hate speech for a whole-ass blocklist is pretty damn over the top. If I don't want to pay attention to internet fedoras, that's a me problem.

Show threadChris is.Nov 28
@majick Why do you find it irksome and juvenile?
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@offby1 Deliberately selecting terms specifically to annoy and provoke people—particularly terms coined for the purpose—is effectively the world's mildest form of trolling. Unironic edgelord stuff that makes someone more readily dismissed.

As I said, choosing to block or not would be very much a me problem, not something I'd go around soliciting others to do. Turns out I don't since the annoyance at the behavior is far below my threshold.

Nov 28 at 6:39pmWeb
Show threadChris is.Nov 28

@majick It’s interesting to me that you’d ascribe that motive. If you look at other replies to my post, there’s more than a few from people elsewhere in the Americas commenting that they, in fact, don’t use “American” to refer to USians at all, and also broadly don’t appreciate the continental name being co-opted by one of the more than 20 countries therein.

Perhaps the term isn’t being used to annoy USians so much as it is expressing annoyance AT them?

Show threadclewNov 28

I avoid “American” merely because it’s ambiguous!

@offby1 @majick

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Nov 28

just because you’re illiterate in the most spoken language in the Americas, doesn’t mean a word doesn’t exist.

the most spoken american language is Spanish. USian is short for unitedstatian; which is the translation of estadounidense.

estadounidenses should, at the very least, know where they fall in the hierarchy of american languages.

@majick @offby1

Show threadmajickNov 28
@blogdiva @offby1 Thanks for the reminder. It's cool that there's a cognate for the late 80's internet coinage!
Show threadvarx/socialNov 29
@majick The people I've seen using it don't seem to be using it in order to *annoy* people—I see it used because it's unambiguous.
Show threadFrank SkorniaDec 3
@varx @majick When I went to school in the UK a long time ago, I initially introduced myself as an "American" and quickly adapted to introducing myself from the US, as people pointed out that "American" covered a lot of territory that wasn't just the United States
Show threadMab_813Jan 3

@varx @majick

How is "USAmerican" misnaming?
Personally I use "US American" I mean they're not the whole continent?