zlatiah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month ago"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronymmessage-squaremessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down111
arrow-up1144arrow-down1message-square"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronymzlatiah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square61fedilink
minus-squareCarbonIceDragon@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 month 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 month 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