zlatiah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days ago"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronymmessage-squaremessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1153arrow-down110
arrow-up1143arrow-down1message-square"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronymzlatiah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square59fedilink
minus-squareCarbonIceDragon@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 days agoShouldn’t Spanish have the same problem? I’ve seen them abbreviate it to EEUU though, which I assume must help prevent confusion?
minus-squareemmanuel_car@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoSame as another user said, in Spanish European Union is Unión Europea, so abbreviates to UE, and you’re right about EEUU, because it’s the United States
Shouldn’t Spanish have the same problem? I’ve seen them abbreviate it to EEUU though, which I assume must help prevent confusion?
Same as another user said, in Spanish European Union is Unión Europea, so abbreviates to UE, and you’re right about EEUU, because it’s the United States