Comment by nicofo

4 years ago

Cool! nice initiative. For me is important my privacy, and using EEUU apps/services/dns/cloud/third parties things for using internet it should pass through EEUU services, threath analysis, NSA, FBI, Goverment interest, that's why this kind of initiatives are important.

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ggambetta  4 years ago

FYI "EEUU" only makes sense in Spanish-speaking countries (AFAIK). When writing in English, for English-speaking audiences, use "the US". Otherwise everyone will be very confused, especially in the context of an article about the EU.

  • cblconfederate  4 years ago

    now i m curious why it is written like that

    • ggambetta  4 years ago

      "United States" translates literally to "Estados Unidos" in Spanish. Because some rule that sounds unfathomably stupid to me, in Spanish you can turn that into EEUU instead of EU, because both the "E"s and the "U"s are plural ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      There's a few other examples I'm aware of, like FFAA for "Fuerzas Armadas" ("Armed Forces"), but I have the feeling this is an obsolete practice.

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