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Literally no UK university student would call themselves a college student, regardless of the few UK universities that structure themselves into colleges. I, an
by simonbarker87 3y ago
Literally no UK university student would call themselves a college student, regardless of the few UK universities that structure themselves into colleges. I, and everyone of my university friends stopped saying we were in college when we left college (at 18) and instead said we were in uni. Every uni grad I know talks about “when I was at university” and not “when I was in college”.
The article is talking about a student in the UK, it should use the correct terminology for that country and not the US specific one.
Like I said, I’m being pedantic.
- vidarh 3y agoHe was not writing about himself. He was being written about by a US publication using American English, and it's a perfectly valid choice for a US publication to use American English rather than British English.
- krustyburger 3y agoExcept that this isn’t the original headline and was provided by the HN submitter.
- vidarh 3y agoThat just changes who is to "blame", and the submitter appears to be American, based on the link in his profile, so it also makes no difference to the original issue.
- jowea 3y agoI don't know, if an American newspaper writes that a British minister went to "public school", wouldn't that be misleading?