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The title should read "Saudi Arabia". Cutting a country name in half (unless its an accepted way of abbreviating it) is not a good say of modifying a headline.
by graemep 6mo ago
The title should read "Saudi Arabia". Cutting a country name in half (unless its an accepted way of abbreviating it) is not a good say of modifying a headline. What is next? Zealand ?
- b40d-48b2-979e 6mo agoArabia existed before the Saudis. It will exist after.
- esquivalience 6mo agoYes, but it means something different to the name of the country. It means a region.
- redsocksfan45 6mo ago[dead]
- BeetleB 6mo agoGeographically Arabia is more than just Saudi Arabia, so the title is inaccurate.
- ImJamal 6mo agoWhile true, they mentioned another country on the Arabian peninsula so you could assume it is the country.
- input_sh 6mo agoThe title as it is right now is 79 characters long, the limit is 80.
- saghm 6mo agoWhat about "Meta blocks human rights accounts for audiences in Saudi Arabia and UAE"? I don't think "reaching" adds much to the headline
- maratc 6mo ago> "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE" 79 chars.
- saghm 6mo agoEven better!
- dnnddidiej 6mo agoSaudi Arabia is a city in UAE?
- saghm 6mo agoWe can't solve the general problem of English syntax ambiguity in a HN headline, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to be precise about the literal names of things
- gaudystead 6mo agoMight as well go for the limit and replace the comma with " &" (space ampersand)
- pronik 6mo agoPeople say "States" or even US all the time, usually forgetting the other country that has "United States" in their name.
- yuppiepuppie 6mo ago> usually forgetting the other country that has "United States" in their name Mexico?
- marcosdumay 6mo agoAnd yet the title kept the equivalent of "United". Except that there isn't a region of the world called "United", but there is one called "Arabia", and it isn't the country.
- leeoniya 6mo agothe term "Americans" always bothered me, though it's commonly used to refer to US
- satiric 6mo agoLooks like the original title is too long for Hackernews
- haritha-j 6mo agoSome people I know from Saudi Arabia refer to it as Saudi, so maybe thats the better word? I've never heard anyone call it Arabia.
- xinu2020 6mo agoKSA works too and matches UAE pattern.
- caymanjim 6mo agoKSA is never used in US media. No one here would know what it meant.
- reaperducer 6mo agoNo one here would know what it meant. Unless they collect stamps.
- malfist 6mo agoI know what it means and I'm in the US.
- embedding-shape 6mo agoI'm sure almost no one watching US media knows what "human rights" or "asm.js" is, yet we allowed them in HN titles still.
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- marcosdumay 6mo ago"Arabia" is the name of the entire peninsula. There's half a dozen countries there.
- nish__ 6mo agoYes. Say Saudi.
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- smashah 6mo agoThe title says Arabia because this practice of evil trillion dollar megacorps capitulating to repressive regimes happens across multiple countries recently (UAE & KSA) - just as they did w.r.t Russian accounts in the Epsteinist-occupied EU/UK.
- tokai 6mo agoIts the Saud's Arabia. That is a family name. Signifying its the Suad part of Arabia.
- bawolff 6mo agoEspecially when arabia by itself kind of means the arabian peninsula, not saudi arabia.
- wavefunction 6mo agoI don't find it too objectionable, Saudi Arabia refers to the country and part of Arabia (the peninsula) that is under control of the House of Saud. It may be an expat affectation though. My... American family lived there when I was a child and we called it "Saudi." Flying back to Saudi, where we'd see and interact with the native Saudis. To your point about New Zealand, of course NZ would be used.
- dang 6mo agoThe submitter was just trying to fit HN's 80 char limit for titles. We've adjusted it now.