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Cake day: November 21st, 2023

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  • “Estadounidense” is the demonym–so what you would call something from the US (the English equivalent would be American, possibly Yankee [although that has its own Spanish word, “yanqui”]). Other demonyms would be salvadoreño for Salvadorean, mexicano for Mexican, venezolano for Venezuelan, etc.

    So, to answer your question: yes, the words are related; someone from los Estados Unidos (EEUU) would be estadounidense.

    Edit to clarify:

    Strictly speaking, the word “demonym” refers to people, but in the case of “estadounidense” it can refer to things and people. From English Wikipedia:

    “Often, demonyms are the same as the adjectival form of the place, e.g. Egyptian, Japanese, or Greek. However, they are not necessarily the same, as exemplified by Spanish instead of Spaniard or British instead of Briton.”



  • What’s comical about the idea of a flat earth being hidden by the government is that it presupposes that it’s either a multinational conspiracy lasting for literal millennia or that the government manages to doctor and fabricate every communication you’ve ever been privy to, except, of course, the ones flat earthers disseminate freely and publicly.

    But as someone who attended public, government-funded schools and grew up thinking that a flat earth was QED until Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 and blew everyone’s mind, I’m not so sure they ultimately really care if Joe Schmo thinks one way or the other about the curvature of the earth (apart from maybe being a litmus test for incorrigibility, gullibility, or education).