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Re: Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

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> I assume you mean USAian. In English, the word American refers to someone from the United States, and almost all of the languages of the world use some equivalent term: amerikkalainen, Amerikaner, Américain, americano, американец , アメリカ人, أمريكي When speaking South American-inflected Spanish, you might use the word estadounidense and not americano USAian is not a word that anyone uses. I don't make the rules.

> n English, the word American refers to someone from the United States, No. It refers to Mexacins, Canadians, Columbians.... The problem with USA expetionalism made clear.

When English speakers speak English, American refers to people from the USA. Spanish speakers from South America are the only ones who complain about this, but they are free to use whatever terms they would like, when speaking Spanish.

If it makes you feel better, you can tell yourself that American is just a short way of saying United States of American, if you want.

Re: Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

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Went hitchhiking in Alaska while running my startup to "get a break". Absolute disaster. Couldn't properly connect to internet, dropped a bunch of meetings, etc. Still worth it. My fault for not planning in advance.

> Couldn't properly connect to internet, dropped a bunch of meetings, etc. Isn't that the whole point of going to Alaska?

Yeah, this was my first startup and I thought I could multi-task lol. Probably did it for the wrong reason (eg: "checking a box - went hitchhiking in Alaska") than anything else. Spent most of the trip worrying about other) startup shit, didn't enjoy the scenery nearly as much as I should have. Still regret it haha!
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