Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:29:34PM +0000, Pedro M. (Morphix User) wrote:
> John Hasler escribió:
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> >>OK, then I vote that we replace "United States of America" with
> >>"America". It's also universally understood.
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> >"America" is ambiguous. "United States of America" is not a
> >controversial political statement at variance with common usage.
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> I agree. America is more than US ( i.e. South America).
You need to define your terms carefully. "America" describes two
things: a continent and a country. The only country containing the word
"America" is the USA. We are not discussing lists of continents in
Debian, only countries.
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