US Florida

[Lorenzo Cappelletti]

"Noel D. Torres Tan~a" <ndtt at ll.iac.es>, Fri 07 May 2004 18:02 +0100:

> Why is Florida considered a "contry" like, for example, Estonia, when 
> it's only an state of a bigger country, the United States of America

Well, I may be wrong, but Florida _is_ a country. I asked Edward Alfert
<ealfert at rootmode.com>, first US mirror admin, and he agreed with no
fuss.

I may be wrong because in Italian there is no difference between a
country and a state.  I mean, we don't have a word for "country" and we
translate it with the same word as "state".  And nowadays I think one
could say "United States of Europe" (political implications apart) as
much as United States of America, couldn't they?

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