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Originally Posted by Caballero
The reason that Usian hasn't caught on to refer to people from the United States of America, and the United States of Mexico, is Usian sounds like some sort of extraterrestrial, or someone who uses something. There are the Vulcans, Romulans, Usians, Klingons, etc. The other reason is that no native speaker of English would ever use that term, as you can't derive a word like that by arbitrarily sticking -ian on any word you please, just like you can't negate a word just by adding un- to it, such as "ungood". It would be like referring to a Spaniard in Spanish as a Españaense, or an Argentine as an Argentinaense. Would they accept that? Would they decide to use it amongst themselves because an English speaker told them to? I doubt it. Therefore the only people that use that "word" in English are non-native speakers. The correct term for that would be "people from the United States"; "US residents", "US citizens" etc. There is no way of shortening it from that. Sorry.
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I don't know what are you sorry about, but anyway ... yes, we might even speculate about "estadounidiota" being a proper term to address one or two, but "español latino" is an alien term, even though "español" and "latino" are indeed Spanish words and being one of them a noun and the other one an adjective, they can be paired pretty much the same way "sonidos amarillos" does. About valid suffixes for nationality, -ian is one of many, as in Alabamian or Kentuckian so we can experiment a lot and add it to an upgraded-to-acronym initialism and thus get "Usian", which is as valid, properly constructed and real language as "español latino". Both give only a few hundred results in Google, but they might have a brilliant future ahead as ignorance promotes the use of one of them and being considered an irritating slur promotes the use of the other, all by similar ways Atlantans come to be known as truly Yankees as their "beloved" General Sherman.