[WikiEN-l] Why voting *is* evil

John Lee johnleemk at gawab.com
Mon Apr 10 18:15:28 UTC 2006


Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:

>On 4/10/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Why, exactly?
>>
>>Two well-known things are called Georgia.  It is thus logical for the
>>title to be a disambiguation between them, and everything else known
>>by that name.
>>
>>-Matt
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>>
>
>Ohh, come on, there's a huge difference between Georgia the Country
>and Georgia the State. Georgia is a WHOLE country. Like, bigass, we
>got troups, "why don't we take this outside, former Soviet
>country-style", international trade, country.
>
>Disambigging those two would be like disambigging "Paris" to separate
>"Paris, Texas" and "Paris, France". This is the worst kind of
>US-centrism.
>
></rant>
>
>--Oskar
>  
>
I've never set foot in the US and I've still seen and heard more 
references to Georgia the state than Georgia the country in my entire 
life. I think making [[Georgia]] a disambig is a good compromise.

John



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