Comment Re:It fits the character of France (Score 1) 419
Well, yes, but that's still no excuse to quash innovation.
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Well, yes, but that's still no excuse to quash innovation.
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But in America, what I said is generally considered correct; use of "America" (rather than "the Americas") to refer to the super-continent/pair-of-subcontinents is rare, especially in contemporary writing.
100% agreed, AFAIK it's the same in French.
A country that likes to call itself by the name of a continent
What continent is that? I'm aware of a continent called "North America", and another called "South America", and together they're called "The Americas" (note plural), but I'm not aware of any physical location that's named or referred to as just "America", other than the US. The rest of your post I agree with, but that whole continent nonsense just bugs me. America has enough real problems that we don't need to make crap up to complain about.
Not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas
North and South America are sometime called sub-continents but there is only one continent which indeed is called The Americas (or the American continent).
I agree with you though that when one says "America" I generally assume that he's talking about the US (except in very specific contexts). (and all the same in French).
NB: There was (is ?) a several-years-long debate on the French Wikipedia about this very topic where some grammar zealots wanted people to use "étatsuniens" (unitedstatians ?) instead of "americans" even though almost no-one was actually using it in real life
Why wouldn't I want to live near one? I'd much rather live next to a nuke plant than:
1. Chemical factory/storage. See Bhopal
2. Coal Power plant (lung cancer risks slightly lower than active smoker)
3. Garbage dump (stinks, possibly/probably toxic)
4. Nuclear plant (Tchernobyl, Three Mile Island)
Fixed that for you
I'd rather see nuclear plant used instead of coal or oil-burning plants, but please don't ignore the potential danger(s)
Who has not been acquired by Microsoft
doesn't return Yahoo ?
actually it doesn't return any result
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.
