Whybdo I get the feeling an American wrote this 🤣

Americans would say why don't they speak American yet

@empanadas yes, the post really doesn't make any sense. The poster says no "hate to her American friends," which BTW ignores those America NJ living below Texas, and she admits the sign is clearly Moroccan, but the image shows it is an advertisement for the "British Workshop," in Morocco.

@samueltyler2 i'm not sure what you mean by those 'America NJ living below Texas.' New Jersey (NJ) is on the east coast above Texas.

The post wasn't literally saying that an American wrote a sign and put it in Morocco. It's more a joke to call out some realities in how language is approached within and outside of the USA

@Soph03 The term American is one of my pet peeves. I missed the typo of NJ, that was inserted by my auto complete, I was trying to point out, that there is North America, Central America and South America. People living below the state of Texas, in Central or South America, are all Americans. I try hard to differentiate between those living in the US, who tend to be very restricted in other languages, and those living in the other Americas. In Canada, many, if not most, are at least bi-lingual. Somone made an interesting point in that English may have spread more because of British imperialism than US. When I was in school the 2 "international" languages were actually German and French. To get a liberal arts degree one had to complete education in another language. Most of my friends took French because it was easier than German, and many scientific journals at the time were in German or French. Russian was beginning to become important, but except in music, I don't remember any other reason to learn it, until Sputnik altered the thought towards scientific language needs.

Somehow English has become the international language, all pilots communicate in it, how that happened is a bit of a question for me.

@samueltyler2 yes a history of imperialism and there's nothing wrong with only speaking one language, it's more the cluelessness i've seen with some US citizens that people speak English outside of the US.

First line of Joe Biden's wikipedia says he's an American politician
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden

Hillary Clinton says an American Attorney and Author
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton

Rutgers University 'stands among America’s highest-ranked, most diverse public research universities.
https://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers

Maybe i'm wrong but so are all these sources

@Soph03 they aren't wrong so much as ignoring the fact that they are really a sunset of Americans. It is interesting how using the term American seems to indicate to someone a US citizen. My niece living in Canada reminds people that she is an American. I have wondered how this happened, why do we call a Mexican a Mexican but a Texan an American? Perhaps it is that we are the United States of "America," emphasizes the "America" and people do not think of the comparison between states and countries. For example the European Union has many countries in it, but each maintains its own identity, it's language, until the agreement on the Euro, each had its currency, some still do.

@samueltyler2 it's really not a problem I deal with a lot but maybe something should be done about it

@Soph03 People find it easier to write America then United States of America, and most often there is not the use of the term Alabaman, or whatever state. It is interesting that you would be called a Scotswoman, or whatever the term, or Dutch, and not a European. This just proves how strange the language is. It is only a semantic problem, although, as I say, my niece corrects people who use the term incorrectly.

@samueltyler2 never heard of a scotswoman 🤣

@samueltyler2 maybe it's because a Mexican comes from the country of Mexico and a Texan comes from the state of Texas in America 🧐

@Soph03 what would be the politically acceptable term?

@Dacrowman from the state of Texas in the country of The United States of America, there is technically no country of "America!"

@samueltyler2 so when you meet someone and they ask where you from do you say america or united States of America because no American I have met has said that 🤔

@Dacrowman I never say America, I may say east coast US and then if they ask further, I say NJ. I am super sensitive because I have family in Canada and they do take offense to the use of the term. It may be pure semantic vs, but, I feel it is important. In my field i also always correct people when they say EKG when in the US rather than ECG.