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[โ€“] dominic.borcea@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Usaian is considered a nonce term

I'm sorry, what? Wdym "nonce term"? As in pedophiles use it? What?
Is that a thing? Do pedophiles have preferred terminology for people of the USA? How do you even come to know about this being a "nonce term" in the first place??? Maybe "nonce" means something else?

but YSK that many people will ignore everything that you say if you use the term Usaian anywhere in your text

Yeah, that's completely fine though. I don't really mind if they ignore me because of terminology.
I always thought that maybe if I start using the term and others start using it as well, maybe it'll become normalized at some point in the future. Who knows.
If not, then that's fine, not a biggie.

[โ€“] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nonce can mean niche yes, though it does add a flavor of derogatory implication to the subject, similar to if not precisely like how pedophiles have uh... ah... "specialized" interests.

Whether pedophiles themselves have preferred terminology, h-h-how would I know!?! ๐Ÿคช It's funny that we are now discussing our second non-preferred terminology:-).

I think "Usaian" has caught on, but only among internet incel culture, which is the problem I was warning about. Most people use US-American. Using Usaian then comes across as being meant as an insult.

[โ€“] dominic.borcea@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

but only among internet incel culture

first time I ever hear about this.
haven't really see it being used anywhere, personally, let alone among incels

being meant as an insult.

A lil guilty of that, ngl. It does have a slight derogatory tinge that I'm not particularly opposed to