Nautilus said:
Lol.It may seem a silly thing, but we are in an international forum.I personally think its best to be the most precise you can, because not everyone here is fluent on English, and they might not always understand the references. |
Except nobody says casually says "I am from America"
when they mean they are from somewhere else in the American continents besides USA.
It's just not done, it is clearly less informative than any other statement you could make (specific country, continent, region).
No other country within the American continent and archipelagos contains the word "America" within it's name, formal or informal.
When referencing all of the American contents, the proper grammar is "the Americas" (plural), given 2 distinct continents.
So there really is no actual confusion when using the term "America" in an English sentence in the manner the OP used.
As evidenced by the fact that nobody was actually confused, despite this being an international internet forum.
Further, "United States" is hardly specific either. The southern neighbor to the USA is in fact "The United States of Mexico".
Plenty of other cases exist, e.g. "Germany" despite a number of "German" tribes existing in multiple nations. (analogous to "America")
Fact is, the name of the USA is itself problematic, because it has no territory in South America. But that's it's name.
"America" is internationally understood as the name of a country whose abbreviation of formal name is USA. Deal with it.
