CAFE regs made USian hugecars relatively profitable, and car makers got USians to demand them via savvy marketing. That's what I reckon anyway.

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rudhdb773b 10 hours ago | parent [-]

The word "American" already unambiguously describes people of the USA. You don't need to make up a new word.

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defrost an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The word "American" has many sub entries in the Oxford English Dictionary - not all of those meanings are "citizen of the USofA".

So much for unambiguous.

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0_____0 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

1. Synonyms exist in language.

2. You're on a site with a bunch of programmers who regularly use weird words for stuff that already has a name. Reading through HN is wading through a swamp of made up names and tech neologisms, you're just used to it already. I once told a software guy that our team's SWEs had migrated away from React and Node to Stork.JS and Blackadder. He nodded like that meant anything.

3. I like it and you can't stop me.

	▲	mbernstein 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Stork.JS is a really well written piece of software, though.