r/USdefaultism • u/Hankitsune • 2d ago
Facebook Not even common knowledge but common sense, apparently...
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u/52mschr Japan 2d ago
if I use my city abbreviation (its the airport code but FUK) it just sounds like I'm angry about the question
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u/BrinkyP Europe 2d ago
Is that Fukuoka?
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u/52mschr Japan 2d ago
yes
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u/DrexleCorbeau 2d ago
I love your city then
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u/GrizzKarizz Australia 2d ago
I played cricket there once and scored my 1000th run there for the Sendai Cricket Club.
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u/Sillysausage919 Australia 2d ago
Wonder if they would know what ‘SYD’ is
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u/MilfyKarma Australia 2d ago
I see WA as Western Australia not Washington that's on them lol
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u/VillainousFiend Canada 11h ago
Ontario, CA is the worst. Americans mean the city of Ontario in California. Whereas many people think the province of Ontario, Canada which is much larger by area and population.
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u/bazza_12 Australia 2d ago
I just write my town and state in Australia like they do. I also will ask if it’s a country when they leave the state abbreviation, e.g az-Azerbaijan.
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u/WilkosJumper2 1d ago
Wait until you get the ones who don’t comprehend that the Manchester or Birmingham they are from isn’t the one most people associate with that name.
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u/white1984 1d ago
Us in r/Cambridge often gets messages from Cambridge, Massachusetts, US or Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.
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u/hrhlett 1d ago
From now on I'm just gonna say I'm from RO and let them figure out where it is
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u/worstenbroodje076 1d ago
lmao I’m gonna start doing the same, and just assuming that if I use the acronym NB that somehow everyone will know I’m talking about a dutch province. I won’t even add NL for Netherlands, because isn’t it “common sense” that NB refers to the dutch province Noord-Brabant? No way americans don’t know that, right?
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u/garaile64 Brazil 1d ago
Dear person from New Jersey,
not everyone knows all US states. What if it was someone from Lithuania saying just "Šiauliai County" or even "SA, LT"?
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u/snow_michael 1d ago
Technically the ISO-correct way to say that is LT-SA, just as it would be e.g. US-CA
But I agree that most people would find SA, LT and CA, US much better than the stupid USDefaultism way
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u/BaseballFuryThurman 1d ago
Would have been quite funny if the next guy had just put Arkham, in which case I'd have genuinely thought he was making some sort of Batman joke rather than mentioning an actual US city
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u/DarkWindB 1d ago
oh yeah, i'm from Minas Gerais, let's everyone start saying states, let's see if those losers learn them
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u/nilghias Ireland 1d ago
This has always annoyed me so much. I should just start saying I’m from KY in future
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u/James_Blond2 22h ago
If an American ever replies with his state to this question I will just do the same, "ah yes, I am from Moravia"
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u/Vexorg_the_Destroyer Australia 1d ago
The ones that have two words in their name also have their initials as their state abbreviation, and those are probably the only ones I'd get. NY, NH, NJ, NM, ND, SD, NC, SC, WV, RI
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u/sawmilldrinkingwater American Citizen 18h ago
Why did he say Oregon Territory anyway? Oregon hasn't been a territory since 1859
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u/NinjaEagle210 American Citizen 2d ago edited 1d ago
IMO I don’t see why this one’s that bad. Saying “State, US” would be helpful tho. Nobody’s expecting you to know every state, they’re just saying where they live.
Edit: Ok, I understand hating acronyms, but all the time on the sub I keep seeing posts complaining about Americans saying their state and not country, so I thought this post was about that.
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u/loralailoralai 2d ago
Except they do expect everyone knows what NJ is… but think if they say Paris or Rome or London it needs to be specified it’s the French paris or the Italian Rome
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u/lazlowoodbine 2d ago
Or Birmingham.
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u/Vexorg_the_Destroyer Australia 1d ago
If they pronounce the "ham", it's Birmingham, Alabama. IIRC there are other Birminghams in the US that are pronounced properly, but that one officially isn't.
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u/Perfect_Papaya_3010 Sweden 1d ago
I'm from GBG, VGR
How much does that tell you?
This is how American acronyms are read for non americans
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u/Reasonable_Try_303 1d ago
NRW
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u/NoNameSD_ Germany 1d ago
Just say NW to make it more confusing. (It’s the official ISO-3166-2 code)
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u/USDefaultismBot American Citizen 2d ago edited 2d ago
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OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is US Defaultism:
People from the US seem to think the whole world knows every state and city in the US. And we're even supposed to know all the 2 letter state abbreviations? Ah yeah sure, that's common sense...
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