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President Trump calls on New Mexico to change its name to ‘New America’ (edition.cnn.com)

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[–] violetring@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I propose we go back to calling New York by older names - let's call the state New Netherland and the city New Amsterdam!

Either that, or we create a new "American" language that purges all words derived from other, non English, languages... So most, if not all of our current words. I don't know, maybe we just need to purge the non "white" words? What's the current opinion on Spanish peoples, does Trump consider them "white", would banana still be ok to use?

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why they changed it, I can't say.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I guess people just liked it better that way.