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Re:America Is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most P... by HenryBemis on Saturday June 22, 2019 @03:31PM (#20251282)
Title should also say "Citizens/inhabitants of the United States of America". America is a continent (also Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania - listed in alphabetical order)(not counting the N/S Poles). Americans are the people who live in said continent. I also think we gave the website the HN-kiss-of-death :)
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Re:America Is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most P... by asaph on Saturday June 22, 2019 @04:57PM (#20251691)
No reasonable person interprets "America" to mean the "continent of America". In fact, there is no continent called "America". There is only "North America" and "South America", which are 2 distinctly different continents. And within North America, which contains the US, Canada and Mexico, neither people in Canada, nor Mexico consider themselves to be "American" or within "America".
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Re:America Is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most P... by DanBC on Saturday June 22, 2019 @05:00PM (#20251708)
> In fact there is no continent called "America". There is only "North America" and "South America", which are 2 distinctly different continents.

...in English.

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Re:America Is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most P... by asaph on Saturday June 22, 2019 @05:13PM (#20251749)
Fine. But that's the language of this article and this conversation thread. No reasonable person would assume some other language is relevant in this conversation.
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Re:America Is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most P... by DanBC on Sunday June 23, 2019 @04:56AM (#20254033)
HN has an international audience and the subtleties of naming the country vs the continent can be easy to miss.
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