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First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV

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pif ◴[09 May 25 09:08 UTC] No.43935052[source]▶
Please, correct the stupidly wrong title: the last Pope was an American!
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c-c-c-c-c ◴[09 May 25 09:19 UTC] No.43935101[source]▶
No he wasn't.
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4ggr0 ◴[09 May 25 13:12 UTC] No.43936345[source]▶
Argentinia is in America, you know. Maybe not in North America or the US, but certainly in America.
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nozzlegear ◴[11 May 25 02:48 UTC] No.43950896[source]▶
Since we're using English, Argentina is in South America. People in Argentina speak Spanish and would call themselves americanos or sudamericanos. But in actuality they call themselves argentinos because everyone on earth understands that American unambiguously refers to citizens of the USA.
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defrost ◴[11 May 25 03:02 UTC] No.43950983[source]▶
> because everyone on earth understands that American unambiguously refers to citizens of the USA.

With the exception of the Oxford English Dictionary and several others, of course.

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1. nozzlegear ◴[11 May 25 03:11 UTC] No.43951038[source]▶
You're using a dictionary, its literal job is to show you every possible definition of a word — not the most common sense definition. Maybe try urban dictionary or even Wikipedia?
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2. defrost ◴[11 May 25 03:14 UTC] No.43951048[source]▶
You claimed: " everyone on earth understands that American unambiguously refers to citizens of the USA "

This is false. As you have just acknowledged in your own comment.

The OED has multiple on record in major print publications examples of use of the word american in multiple contexts. One of those is specific to the United States of America which is the more common usage.

Not the only, and not always unambiguously so.

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3. nozzlegear ◴[11 May 25 13:26 UTC] No.43953682[source]▶
> As you have just acknowledged in your own comment.

I didn't acknowledge that. Instead you told me to check the dictionary which is not at all relevant to what I said. If somebody holding a dictionary came up to you and told you they're American, would you assume they meant they're from the US, or somewhere across two vast continents? Which is more likely? I think you know the answer even if you want to be pedantic about it.