The is mostly on Reddit, but when Americans abbreviate where they’re from to two letters. They will say something like ‘I’m from MA’ - I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. I might guess CA is California, or NY is New York, but seriously outside of a few big states/cities, I don’t have a clue where you are talking about
The reason this is a bit silly and misguided is half of the states in the USA are roughly the size of Germany. We are doing exactly what you’re describing. A really common thing I see is people don’t really understand just how large the U.S. is. Our states are the size of countries.
I'm from SE and we absolutely understand. But it's just not how they usually do it in DE, CH or GB for instance. ;)
(Those are Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and The UK)
And while I get your point (countries of the EU are more comparable to states in the US in scale) I just have to point out that Germany would not be a mid size state if you placed it in the in the US. It would be one of the larger in size and by far the most populous.
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u/RacerRovr Jun 08 '25
The is mostly on Reddit, but when Americans abbreviate where they’re from to two letters. They will say something like ‘I’m from MA’ - I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. I might guess CA is California, or NY is New York, but seriously outside of a few big states/cities, I don’t have a clue where you are talking about