Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"?

• Bye@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And North America is in America

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  • Kolrami@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People in the USA would probably reword that sentence as “And North America is in the Americas.”

    It’s similar to how North and South Dakota are called “The Dakotas,” not “Dakota.”

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  • Setarkus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And “America” is in “North America”

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  • Th4tGuyII@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, but I don't think the person I was replying to was referring to America the continent given the context - plus even in that context it would still be more accurate to say North America as Southern/Latin America doesn't share the same cultural identity

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    • Taalen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I debated whether I should say NA or American, but I figured I don’t know what Canadians use, so there we go. Anyway, nice to see that debate is still alive and healthy. I gave up on it ~20 or so years ago. Writing unitedstatesman was exhausting after a while :)

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• BigilusDickilus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  North America is a continent.

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  • Th4tGuyII@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looked it up properly, you're right. I shouldn't have second-guessed myself

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    • BigilusDickilus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think I have seen Central America referred to as a sub continent, but that doesn’t really make sense other than to create a formal differentiation between them and USA/Canada.

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