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Originally Posted by Enkidu of Abydos
And of those very few that do read and do like gadgets enough to not miss paper every single one (including me) has/wants an e-reader for the single reason that you can read a million books on it for 0$ (unless you really want to pay for them out of the goodness of your heart and donate to the poor rich people who write them that is) while paper books cost real money, and lots of it where I come from. If I had to pay for digital files the same amount of money I pay for real books, I would never have bought an e-reader.
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Most authors aren't rich, and most Americans don't steal.
Pablo, in English, the word for people who live in the US is "Americans." You live in South America, so you are a South American. I live in North America, so I am also a North American.
Your language may use different conventions, and that's fine...but we're not speaking your language.
I didn't invent the term, but I will point out that "Americans" was to distinguish the people living in the new United States from the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Indians who occupied the rest of N. and S. America.
Waiting 40-50 years (or more, in some cases), declaring your own independence, and then stating that Americans are no longer allowed to call themselves that is, well, pointless.
And, again, there is no continent of "America" in English.