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Re:A transportation engineer has a simple solution to pothol... by yousir on Friday March 09, 2018 @04:31PM (#16555234)
As you are fully aware you are well within your rights to not approve. But if you call the whole continent America then surely its very southern part will not be Florida.
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Re:A transportation engineer has a simple solution to pothol... by coldtea on Saturday March 10, 2018 @08:07AM (#16558354)
The USA is also called America in short by most of the world. Not just the continent.

Sometimes languages use the same name for different things, and people can trivially disambiguate from context.

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