Comment by 0_____0
5 days ago
CAFE regs made USian hugecars relatively profitable, and car makers got USians to demand them via savvy marketing. That's what I reckon anyway.
5 days ago
CAFE regs made USian hugecars relatively profitable, and car makers got USians to demand them via savvy marketing. That's what I reckon anyway.
The word "American" already unambiguously describes people of the USA. You don't need to make up a new word.
1. Synonyms exist in language.
2. You're on a site with a bunch of programmers who regularly use weird words for stuff that already has a name. Reading through HN is wading through a swamp of made up names and tech neologisms, you're just used to it already. I once told a software guy that our team's SWEs had migrated away from React and Node to Stork.JS and Blackadder. He nodded like that meant anything.
3. I like it and you can't stop me.
Stork.JS is a really well written piece of software, though.
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The word "American" has many sub entries in the Oxford English Dictionary - not all of those meanings are "citizen of the USofA".
So much for unambiguous.
Have you ever actually heard it used in conversation or writing where the speaker's intention was a meaning that included people outside of the USA? I haven't.
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