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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev -5 points 1 year ago

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