• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    American is pretty unambiguous. What are you getting it mixed up with? No one else uses it. If you hear American, do you have to run through a list of other countries asking them which they are from? Of not, it’s unambiguous.

    You could argue that it shouldn’t be the pronoun for a US citizen, but that’s a different argument than it being ambiguous.

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      11 months ago

      Whatever adjective makes you feel better: appropriate, apt, fitting, correct, modest, less expansive, less assuming, less imperious, less opulent, less grandiose, less egocentric, less narcissistic