[WikiEN-l] Why voting *is* evil

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Mark Gallagher wrote:
> G'day Fastfission,
> 
>> And not to get on Georgia (the country's) bad side, but the state of Georgia
>> actually has almost twice as many people living in it as the country does.
>>
>> Which means that if someone says "My grandmother was born in Georgia", in
>> English, and without any other context, you probably are correct in assuming
>> they mean the U.S. state and not the country, just based on the numbers
>> alone.
> 
> Err ... maybe in America (I have noticed Americans don't seem to see the 
> need to specify nationality, presumably because anyone important is from 
> the USA).
> 
> If an Australian said "my grandmother was born in Georgia", they would 
> usually mean the country.  Otherwise, they'd say "my grandmother was 
> born in Georgia ... you know, in America".
> 

Yeah, wot he said.


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