• moon@lemmy.ml
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    24 days ago

    He didn’t heed the warning and it had turned out surprisingly well.

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      2 years ago

      I spent a few months in Germany years ago, and “Americans” (Amerikaner) tended to be used to refer to people from the Americas (either NA specifically or NA and SA collectively) in my experience. If you wanted to say someone was from the US, you’d say something more like “aus den USA.”

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      2 years ago

      Not in generally English speaking countries, though you will occasionally hear second language English people use it.