Well, everybody born in the american continent is technically “american” too, including Central and South America. Is there a specific term in english for these people?
Well, everybody born in the american continent is technically “american” too, including Central and South America. Is there a specific term in english for these people?
This is about language, not geology. Doesn’t really matter how it came to be that way, North and South America are effectively treated as separate continents and very rarely referred to as a whole, and you saying “but actually” doesn’t change that.
Words can be coined. America is a continent. There, if the word didn’t exist before, it does now.
You’re right that words can be coined and their usage changed, but you seem to be misinformed about how that happens. You just deciding we’re gonna do it this way now in a random thread on lemmy is not gonna cut it, sorry