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Absolutely not confused, it was a remark on the stupidity of using “Europe” to mean “EU” in Britain. It’s a phenomenon I partially blame for Brexit.
by alkonaut 6y ago
Absolutely not confused, it was a remark on the stupidity of using “Europe” to mean “EU” in Britain. It’s a phenomenon I partially blame for Brexit.
- chrisseaton 6y ago> the stupidity of using “Europe” to mean “EU” in Britain It's just a contraction. People on both sides of the debate or with no opinion use it. I think you're making it out to be a bigger deal or something nefarious when it's just a short-hand of speech. Nobody is confused by what the author means, except people pretending to be so.
- alkonaut 6y agoI don’t think anyone is confused either. But language matters and my suspicion is that referring to “Europe” as something else (meaning continental Europe, the rest of Europe etc) for decades has contributed to the feeling among britons of not actually being fundamentally European in the same way e.g the French or Swedish do. You wouldn’t hear anyone else in the EU “go to Europe” or conflate the EU or Europe. And we make a point of not doing it.
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