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The title is ungrammatical and refers to "states" where the article does not.
by milliams 5y ago
The title is ungrammatical and refers to "states" where the article does not.
- giuliomagnifico 5y agoWrite a better tittle and I’ll change it. By the way for me Spain, Florida or UK are states, how you call them?
- riffic 5y agothe article does not refer to "Nations" either (the phrase used in the Reuters text is "well-known land masses"). title nitpicking is one of the worst things about HN (and there are many things wrong with this site), imo just use the original title.
- sixstringtheory 5y agoTonga eruption as if it had* happened in various nations
- giuliomagnifico 5y agoEdited, thanks a lot for the correction! English is not my first language!
- ketzo 5y agojust so you know, you are correct to call Florida and California "states."
- NikolaNovak 5y agoInteresting; on aside, I would call: Florida - State Ontario - Province Spain & UK - "Country" colloquially; might use the term "Nation" if I needed to be more inclusive/ambiguous (Understanding that formally, State might in fact be a better term: e.g. it's "Minister of the State" or "Statesmanship" etc; but this is how I'd use them in daily life. ESL, 25 years in Canada FWIW)
- Clubber 5y agoState and Country are used interchangeably. The United States, before the Civil War was just that, a union of self governing entities. A nation is a group of similar peoples such as the Nation of Islam or Navajo Nation. Country and State are synonymous terms that both apply to self-governing political entities. A nation, however, is a group of people who share the same culture but do not have sovereignty. https://www.infoplease.com/world/diplomacy/state-country-and-nation https://www.infoplease.com/world/diplomacy/state-country-and... https://www.thoughtco.com/country-state-and-nation-1433559 https://www.thoughtco.com/country-state-and-nation-1433559
- NikolaNovak 5y agoI interpreted the question to be about common/colloquial usage, not definition. In colloquial usage, for me, state and country are not typically used interchangeably, and are fairly asymmetrical: i.e. I'd never call Nebraska a Country. I'd much more commonly call Netherlands a country, and only call it a state in formal political discussion. Everybody's mileage will vary significantly :)
- dang 5y agoYou should have used the article's original title, because it was neither misleading nor linkbait. I've reverted it now. "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- VeninVidiaVicii 5y agoAlso poster apparently means US states, not like physical states of a system.
- throwthere 5y ago> Also poster apparently means US states, not like physical states of a system. I think the article means "state" in the sense of "country," not US State.
- giuliomagnifico 5y agoOkay okay, I changed States in Nations, better now?
- danbruc 5y agoI fear you will soon learn that nation is not capitalized and strictly speaking refers to a group of people, not a geographical region.
- mynegation 5y agoNo, if you check the article, poster means sovereign states, or what in US is called “countries”. There is not a single example of a state in USA.
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- TehCorwiz 5y agoThere's one of Florida and one of California.
- giuliomagnifico 5y agoI changed “states” to “States”, I thought it was obvious