Comment by JumpCrisscross
6 months ago
> Imagine what people would say about Cloudflare if they had an hour long outage
That Cloudflare had an outage. Not America.
6 months ago
> Imagine what people would say about Cloudflare if they had an hour long outage
That Cloudflare had an outage. Not America.
> That Cloudflare had an outage. Not America.
You probably mean the USA? After all, it was China and not Asia which was responsible for the incident ;)
In English, there is no continent named "America." It's unambiguously used to refer to the United States.
How is the continent called then?
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I would not say "unambiguously" when it comes to natural languages.
And no, "America" may have referred to the US when I was a kid and here in Central Europe we had Back to the Future type of shoes with the American flag, yeah, and I would not say unambiguously so.
If someone says "America" to refer to a place, they really ought to specify if they want you to understand them.
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