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I'm sure you wouldn't be making this complaint if it were the other way around. Rather than demanding the rest of the world avoid abbreviations that coincide wi
by eterm 2y ago
I'm sure you wouldn't be making this complaint if it were the other way around. Rather than demanding the rest of the world avoid abbreviations that coincide with US states, perhaps just accept others can use their own abbreviations.
- textlapse 2y agoIn fairness, this site skews super US/SV-centric, so a majority of people might read it as Washington :) Nothing against local abbreviations. The ramifications of hijacking the wifi used by frequent flyers/tech workers between Seattle <-> SJC/NYC/etc have a very different 'vibe' to it than the actual one in the article.
- starttoaster 2y agoI understand you being offended. I'm sure internet users outside of the US are annoyed by US posters using terms/abbreviations that mean different things to different countries. However, I did purposefully add the question "Is WA commonly thought of as \"Western Australia\" worldwide outside of the US?" as a form of olive branch to people outside of the US, in case I'm the one being ignorant here. So in this case, I kind of think your inflammatory comment is unwarranted though.
- Rygian 2y agoI don't think WA is commonly thought of as anything worldwide.