Timeline for How neatly does the English-language use of the term(s) "America(n\s)" cross over into Latin American Spanish?
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| Dec 27, 2020 at 16:44 | comment | added | Gaviota | @Adinkra Sure. The only meaning the word has is "from America", and for us, America is the continent. Depending of context we may use "latinoamericano" or "sudamericano" or "hispanoamericano" instead. But "americano" will in any case refer to someone from the continent, not from the US. | |
| Dec 27, 2020 at 15:55 | comment | added | Adinkra | Interesting, @Gaviota - In your experience, would argentinos randomly, in regular conversation, refer to themselves as "americanos." | |
| Dec 27, 2020 at 15:53 | comment | added | Adinkra | @Obie2.0 - My Mexican friend kinda just laughed it off. (She's also been a U.S. citizen for like half her life, so I don't know if that's a factor in her perception of the question. Also I did kinda struggle to articulate exactly what I was getting at with this when I talked to her, hence why I'm casting it out here on StackExchange x-D ) | |
| Dec 27, 2020 at 14:14 | answer | added | pablodf76 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 27, 2020 at 8:16 | comment | added | Gaviota | In Argentina, anyone that says "americano" meaning "estadounidense" will be mocked, a lot. | |
| Dec 27, 2020 at 1:35 | comment | added | Obie 2.0 | That's why you can find posts like this or this. But as to the relative frequency of people who say "american@" and mean the United States, people who say "american@" and mean the continent(s), and people who specifically don't say "american@" to mean the country, I would not know. | |
| Dec 27, 2020 at 1:27 | comment | added | Obie 2.0 | From what I have seen, there are tons of Spanish-speaking North and South Americans (who are not from the US) who call people from the US "americanos," although offhandedly I think North Americans are more likely to do it due to their proximity to the US (you did not say what your Mexican friend said...), and there are tons of others who will tell them they are making a mistake. I must have seen this about a dozen times on YouTube in the comments section. | |
| Dec 27, 2020 at 0:25 | history | asked | Adinkra | CC BY-SA 4.0 |