[scld]

Society "regulating" the language of others is almost entirely how languages develop.

USofAian is almost unreadable and unrecognizable in text to the general public when compared with American.

[bombcar]

And anyone else who might technically be called an American doesn’t want the name anyway.

“USian” could apply to Mexico as they’re the United States, too, and since they’re in America they could also be “USofAians”.

[defrost]

> and since they’re in America they could also be “USofAians”.

That's a stretch, the country they live in is United Mexican States which doesn't abbreviate to USofA.

Mexico in short doesn't have the ambiguity of America.

[defrost]

And yet in 40+ years I've yet to exchange text with anyone that didn't understand it.

[scld]

For what its worth, the top google result for USofAian is literally this thread.

[kennysoona]

That you've been using it that long is pretty bizarre to me. I guess it was just a way to stand out? Express some personality with a bit of semantic flair? I get that.

And no, in answer to your deleted replies, I'm not American, just someone that doesn't like seeing ambiguity created unnecessarily or misinformation spread, but I see now you were doing it more for stylistic reasons.