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Could you change the title to say "State of Washington"?
by edbaskerville 8y ago
Could you change the title to say "State of Washington"?
- arwineap 8y agoWouldn't the short of Washington DC simply be DC?
- tajen 8y agoIsn’t the state of Washington in Seattle? which means something else entirely.
- itchyjunk 8y agoSeattle[0] is the city in the state called Washington[1]. I was under the impression that when just 'Washington' was used, it refereed to the state. But looks like even Washington, D.C (formally District of Colombia [2]) is called just Washington[2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_(state) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_(state)
- craftyguy 8y agoDirect Current? Joking aside, ambiguous 2 letter acronyms is not really a good way to reference a US city, since there are folks here who are not in the US.
- andrewflnr 8y agoSometimes, other times no. Referring to the seat of the US government as "Washington" is apparently just too much fun for journalist types, so an unqualified reference to it is often ambiguous in practice.
- almostApatriot1 8y agoyes, or even "The District"
- toomanybeersies 8y agoTo the rest if the world, no. Washington is used to refer to the whole country of the USA
- verelo 8y agoHere I was thinking George was up to something! In all seriousness, this really should be updated, but somehow omitting "state of" sounds more powerful to me...although I'm not sure why I feel this way?
- v-yadli 8y agoPerhaps because Washington alone would represent the HQ of the national government. Think of "London", "Beijing".
- rdiddly 8y agoWhich, for those who like funny Wikipedia words, is a synecdoche.
- xapata 8y agoNot to be confused with Schenectady. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche,_New_York https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche,_New_York
- rdiddly 8y agoAlso not to be confused with a synecdouche (somebody who constantly overuses synecdoche hoping to impress people). Obligatory content-related content: If I were the Attorney General, I think a suit like this, whether successful or not, would undoubtedly be one of the high points of my career.
- verelo 8y agoHa, that is interesting! I had no idea there was a word for this, I love it when HN comes through with a nugget like this! Thank you!
- jdtang13 8y agoor just "Washington State"
- romwell 8y agoThat can be also interpreted as the university though.
- strstr 8y agoI'm not really familiar with people referring to Washington State University as Washignton State. WSU is common. Wazzu is common. Washington State not so much.
- NegativeLatency 8y agoIt’s pretty common. I think the state of Washington would be the best option here.
- almostApatriot1 8y agoI was going to recommend "The State of Washington" but even that is ambiguous.
- chapium 8y agoIs anyone else getting tired of everyone playing editor on HN? In some cases its nice when clickbait headlines are reduced to their original content. However threads like this are drowning out the conversation about the subject matter.
- CamelCaseName 8y agoIt would be nice if such comments were hidden or filtered (with no karma penalty of course) once reviewed by a moderator. Or at least, given a substantial visibility penalty.
- chapium 8y agoSeems pretty fair.
- lakechfoma 8y agoI wouldn't bother clicking on this link if I knew it was the state. So no, I'm not tired of everyone playing editor because it benefits me in the end. I also don't agree that such threads drown the conversation. Often they're buried. Sometimes they are a healthy part of the conversation itself. Sometimes there's a passive aggressive argument about whether or not the conversation is healthy and hey maybe even that's healthy!
- chapium 8y agoI seem to be in the minority, carry on.
- notReallyNope 8y agoNo. Sometimes reading the headline is enough, if the headline is correct. Those of use that really want to know more, will read the article on its own merit, because we’re interested, not because we’re being manipulated into a deeper curiosity than warranted. Meanwhile, complaining about aggressive journalistic tactics is not forum sliding. Keep in mind, beyond linguistic syntax, semantics and other trivial technical matters, much of HN doesn’t qualify as experts on non-technology-oriented stories, and political tripe. Some articles aren’t colored up very much by HN peanut galleries and bike shedding. This is might be one such instance. Anyway, when we notice deceptive practices we complain about them.
- dang 8y agoOk.