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Fun fact: America is not a country
by caub 10y ago
Fun fact: America is not a country
- CalRobert 10y agoAgreed. However this is something that most of the world (aside from Mexico, Central, and South America) collude in. I try to say "the US" in conversations with my European friends, but they will always just say "America" in response. And of course, there is no English equivalent to Estadounidense.
- nmc 10y agoThe French language has "États-Unien" [0] but it is almost never used. [0] https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%89tats-Unien https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%89tats-Unien
- CalRobert 10y agoOf course, even that _could_ be ambiguous given that my homeland's southern neighbor is officially "Estados Unidos Mexicanos" (Mexican United States). That usage is so rare as to be pretty much irrelevant, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico