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Old 06-13-2012, 02:03 PM   #31
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Hey now. I'm European, and we use dollars where I live!
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Old 06-13-2012, 02:06 PM   #32
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You don't find it a tad Kafkaesque that people are insisting that "Britons" can't grasp the UK is part of Europe even as a certain British person whose name begins with H. has consistently objected that he does?
It isn't a question of 'grasping' something.
The UK is part of the European Union, clearly.
It isn't part of continental Europe, equally clearly.
It, I would say, is not part of Europe 'culturally', for the majority of people. The UK still has very much an island mentality.
The word 'Europe' does not have a single unambiguous meaning, so people are free to apply their own.
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I consider European to be that that use the Euro where they live.
So Greece is currently part of Europe, but by the time this thread finishes it might not be
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Europe is not the same as continental Europe, just like America (the country also known as USA) is different from North America or the Americas. So the UK is a part of Europe when you use the word the way the European Union does, but geographically it's a set of islands just north of the northwest corner of continental Europe.

If eBook sales are low in non-English speaking countries, is that more likely to be due to geo restrictions or due to a lack of content in the local language? I'm curious.
Does that mean that Iceland, Elba, Azores, Sicily and Cyprus are not European?
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Hey now. I'm European, and we use dollars where I live!
Really? Where's that? I'm struggling to think of a European country which has the dollar as its currency
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Really? Where's that? I'm struggling to think of a European country which has the dollar as its currency
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Does that mean that Iceland, Elba, Azores, Sicily and Cyprus are not European?
No and yes. Haven't you paid attention?
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Really? Where's that? I'm struggling to think of a European country which has the dollar as its currency
I don't live in a European country anymore. I was born in one, and spent the first 25 years of my life there before moving, so I am a European who happens to be living in the US.

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Yes, I realize that's a bit different from the geographical definitions most in this thread are working with. I just wanted to point out that just like "Europe" means more than one thing, so does "European".
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If you live in the US you have to call it "Yrrrp", not "Europe" .
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If you live in the US you have to call it "Yrrrp", not "Europe" .
Absolutely not! I am proud of my accent!
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Yep I would assume it meant continental Europe ,even through we are supposed to be in Europe it does not really feel a part of it. Thankfully we did not join the Euro or pay Vat on non digital books like Europe does.
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Yep I would assume it meant continental Europe ,even through we are supposed to be in Europe it does not really feel a part of it. Thankfully we did not join the Euro or pay Vat on non digital books like Europe does.
Actually we do pay VAT on books, but at 0%. Books aren't exempt from VAT; they're rated at 0%, which legally is a completely different thing.
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Your ascendancy to becoming an American?
Ascendancy implies that I'm moving to a higher state... and as all Europeans know, we are in every way superior to this former colony
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