Capto Iugulum

[Lord_Iggy]

Not to distract from this wonderful discussion on the semantics of continent names, but I made a thing.

Does Kongo have a flag yet? If not, hows this?

Needs touching up, but the potential is there.

It looks decent for a flag of the Kongo, though it might look even better if the background is a nordic cross rather than a tricolour. I imagine that 'Kongo' today probably uses the old Scandinavian Imperial flag.

Also, when I said the statement about 'escaping from America to Brazil', I meant from the United States to Brazil. In the vernacular of Canada and the United States of America, 'American' refers to a country, while 'North America' and 'South America' refer to continents.

As far as I can tell, the use of the term 'America' to refer to all inhabitants of the New World is a trend limited to Spanish and Portuguese speakers in Latin America.

Thus, in my statement, I was pointing out how it was difficult to escape by foot from the USA to Brazil. I must confess, though you're calling Lucky an idiot, it took me a while to figure out what you were talking about as well.

Educational Video.

 

[Circuit]

All I think about this flame fest is I can't to see what word Milarqui come up to describe 2^16 facepalm.

 

[JohannaK]

We are Americans. America is the shorthand name of the United States of America. The Americas is the proper name for the two continents that make up the western hemisphere of our planet.

I think people call it US or United States as often.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

But if you have to use one word, I think many people who actually live there will say 'America'. I might say 'The States' or 'Stateside' but I suspect it's only really said in Canada.

 

[Circuit]

"The States" or "Stateside" is used by Americans but only outside the US, from my understanding. Frequently we call the US "America" and ourselves "Americans", simply from centuries of force of habit, I guess. Folks from Latin cultures generally take contention with that as they have a different definition of what the word "America" means.

 

[JohannaK]

"Stateside", it's the first time I see that. But "The States", yeah, I've heard that many times.

 

[Terrance888]

In Chinese, America is the "Beautiful Nation" .

Now that we understand that different cultures understand the usage of "America" differently, we can safely waltz over to the new CI thread or otherwise, carry this conversation to the WWW or #neverending where it belongs.

EDIT: BTW, I've heard The States and Stateside as well, although usually when Americans are blogging from Canada or Mexico and refering back home. I've also heard "Across the Pond" when they're in Europe and "Across the Lake" (very rare, probably twice) from Asia.

 

[Luckymoose]

I think people call it US or United States as often.

But we aren't USites.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

But you are meiguoren (spelling?).

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

I think we can all agree that the United States could crush all other feeble nations with a wave of our mighty hand. In the meantime, we have a new thread, and a while we wait thread for this rather pointless discussion.

 

[Gem Hound]

I think we can all agree that the United States could crush all other feeble nations with a wave of our mighty hand. In the meantime, we have a new thread, and a while we wait thread for this rather pointless discussion.

And in doing so start a world war they could never win.

 

[Terrance888]

Link to video.

 

[Gem Hound]

Link to video.

And the ICBM's sent off by the USA would have a response of the rest of the world's nuclear devices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons

Russia by itself has far more nukes than your nation.

Anyways, Americans, don't vote the Republicans in.

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

Please stop.

 

[JohannaK]

Link to video.

Hahaha, moments like this is what made me like the film.

 

[Blue Bacon 3]

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[Lord_Iggy]

Oops, wrong thread. >_>

 

[JohannaK]

 

[Dfskle]

I heard from a friend that some small countries have become available, can I join? I'm new to forum games.

 

[Nintz]

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=478161