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Re:Google Bard now open to use by HarHarVeryFunny on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:02PM (#35891892)

The members of the EU are countries, not states (& the EU itself is a political/economic alliance, not a country).

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Re:Google Bard now open to use by CptFribble on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:07PM (#35891968)

"State" in this context is the same as the state in "head of state," AKA "a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government." Other examples of this usage are "nation-state" and "city-state."

It is common to refer to the members of the EU as "member states."

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Re:Google Bard now open to use by HarHarVeryFunny on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @07:15PM (#35894837)

So then why not just refer to the whole list as states rather than countries ? IMO it be weird to do so, but at least consistent.

I'm curious what state you're from where it's normal to refer to EU members as "member states" ? USA perhaps ?

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Re:Google Bard now open to use by gpm on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:30PM (#35892309)

"State" refers to "any sovereign polity". The US is weird here in that it pretends it's internal political divisions are sovereigns and refers to them as states, but that doesn't make every other country in the world not a state.

Definition from wikitionary (but nothing is special about this choice of dictionary, you should find a similar definition in any dictionary): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/state#Noun

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Re:Google Bard now open to use by khazhoux on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:24PM (#35892227)

It would be exceedingly unlikely that the commenter was so ignorant as to not know France, Germany, Italy, and so on are countries.

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Re:Google Bard now open to use by HarHarVeryFunny on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @07:00PM (#35894654)

So then why not refer to them as countries - that's how they would refer to themselves (I'm ex-UK myself). Doesn't make any sense to say "I know they're countries but I'm just gonna call them states instead". The EU context doesn't make any difference.

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Re:Google Bard now open to use by khazhoux on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @07:07PM (#35894730)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union

> The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe.

"State" made perfect sense in context of the post.

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