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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink43•edit-211 months agoWait til they got told Mexico is in America, they’re gonna lose their shit. Like the USA owns the continent, pffh. The abbreviation for the US, due to what I think are dumb syntax rules in Spanish, is E.E.U.U. For reals. I know, right? But wait there’s more! Mexicos official name is the United States of Mexico, or Estados Unidos de México in Spanglish. And also in Spanish, I think
minus-squarelinuxgatorlinkEnglish14•11 months agoI think the official English version is actually United Mexican States.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•11 months agoIn Spanish, plurality in abbreviations is denoted by doubling up the letters; so (United States) Estados Unidos -> EEUU
Wait til they got told Mexico is in America, they’re gonna lose their shit.
Like the USA owns the continent, pffh.
The abbreviation for the US, due to what I think are dumb syntax rules in Spanish, is E.E.U.U.
For reals. I know, right?
But wait there’s more! Mexicos official name is the United States of Mexico, or Estados Unidos de México in Spanglish.
And also in Spanish, I think
I think the official English version is actually United Mexican States.
EEUU makes sense when there’s also an EU.
In Spanish, plurality in abbreviations is denoted by doubling up the letters; so (United States) Estados Unidos -> EEUU