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Where is Brazil?
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 03:00
by manored
I heard people from england and EUA suck at geography :)
DONT SAY IT
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 03:03
by AF
USA specifically. People in europe tend to be split into absolutely clueless or they know enough for say 60 ro 70 countries including the main ones.
Having said that, polls say most japanese dont know where china or korea are. And most Americans confuse iran and north korea with cuba.
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 03:16
by SwiftSpear
I can't tell if you're trying to be deceptive or if you're just stupid...
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 03:37
by Caydr
"just stupid" imho... And it's the English that suck at geography?
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 04:09
by Peet
It's in Antarctica,which is a part of Asia., duhh.
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 04:38
by Snipawolf
It's not here, it's somewhere else.
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 04:40
by AlterForm
Uhhh...which America is that?
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 04:57
by Snipawolf
Thats why I picked somewhere else..
Brazil is in south america..
Technically, America, is USA, because you didn't specify whether its north or south.
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 05:08
by SwiftSpear
Yes, Snipa is correct. North America and South America are not contained within "America". America in English refers to the USA, it doesn't have a wider contextual meaning.
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 06:51
by ILMTitan
To describe the new world, you could say "The Americas".
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 06:54
by SwiftSpear
Yup. North and South Americas would be "the Americas" Not singular "America".
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 07:29
by Zoombie
I can find it on a map. That's good enough for me.
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 07:29
by Felix the Cat
America is a context-dependent word... it refers to the entire American landmass (from Alaska to Argentina), and it also refers to the United States of America. The latter is, of course, much more common than the former. And, of course, it is perfectly correct to say that
Brazil is in America.
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 07:57
by KDR_11k
I agree with Felix on that. A word has more than one meaning.
Also a first post mentioning "EUA", whatever that is, probably isn't all that strict with plurals anyway.
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 08:53
by Muzic
I thought its spelt Brasil o_O;;
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 09:41
by KDR_11k
Me too. I guess he really meant the city/town/whatever.
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 10:10
by tombom
It's Brasil in Portugese apparently but in English it's Brazil.
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 15:52
by Dragon45
if given a blank map of africa with country borders and no names, i can fill in 75% of the countries.
of africa.
try that, bitches.
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 16:26
by Relative
Dragon45 wrote:if given a blank map of africa with country borders and no names, i can fill in 75% of the countries.
of africa.
try that, bitches.
That's like over 9000 countries
Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 16:32
by imbaczek
Dragon45 wrote:if given a blank map of africa with country borders and no names, i can fill in 75% of the countries.
of africa.
try that, bitches.
i used to be able to name 100% on all continents. good old high school geography test.