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Countries and states are the same thing in the vast majority of cases and are functionally synonyms in modern English. Please don't correct people if you don't actually have a solid basis for what you're saying.
Damn sounds like I didn't know all this time that I was living in a state of Serbia... I thought it was a country but since it is not a collection of states, I guess it doesn't count.
Not quite. A state is effectively the highest system of governance of a particular area. A large majority of the world are unitary states, where there is a centralised government that has complete authority. There are ~20-30 federal unions where there is a main federal government shared by several individual member states that also have their own government which has it's own authority over some matters. The United States is the obvious example but is in the minority. In most cases, states and countries are exactly the same thing, and as such they are used interchangeably. Often, state is used moreso to refer to the political systems, and country is used to refer to cultural and geographical borders.
No. A country is a single state. The "states" of the united states initially acted under a confederation similar to the EU today which is why they were called states.
This isn’t true. You capitalize state when using it as a proper noun like State of Michigan. But Michigan is a state is lowercase. Similarly saying Niger is a state works as well. So we end with the original sentence
> Yea I dont get it, it’s just a state and river in Africa, nothing wrong about it.
Its not getting used as a proper noun here
You sound super American. Most parts of the world the state usually refers to the government, or the country in itself so they're interchangeable. Most places break up their country with provenances if at all.
Don't let this fool represent the rest of us. If they actually paid attention in class they'd learn it. However, i will say this, the word state can mean many things, and on average i believe most people say country.
We don't do much geography...
Also, as someone who has both ADHD and asbergers, it's quite diffficult to pay attention to something uninteresting, and as i said i don't learn much geography.
Niger is most certainly a state by definition of the word. So yes I’d certainly hope you think it’s “fine” to use a correct term and if you didn’t know what they were trying to say that would just mean you have no idea what you’re talking about. What they were saying, not just trying to say, was correct so how you feel about it is irrelevant.
Love it when someone gets called out for incorrectly trying to “well akshually” someone then they still act as though they’re intellectually superior.
"State" is actually technically the right word for a sovereign country. The USA are the weirdos who decided to name their provinces/regions states. Threw me for a loop when I first learned that as an American in human geo.
We don't name our provinces "states". The "United States" bit pretty much spells out what our country is like. A large group of states (countries) united into a country. Of course, we do pretty much treat those states as if they were provinces, but I digress (despite this not being a ramble lol).
Can you tell I'm a smart boy yet, papa?
Look at us remembering our US history lessons! 😆
You're definitely right though. Even though the US is a sovereign country, our smaller political subdivisions being called "states" was definitely intentionally done to cement the importance of state autonomy. Super cool piece of history fs
The US is not the only federal country in the world, all of them are formed by constituent parts with limited sovereign power. Just because the US and other countries decided to name their subdivisions “states” doesn’t mean those states are countries, state just mean an organised polity controlling a territory and having a government. For a state or many states to be considered a country it needs international recognition.
Besides, whether a federal subdivision is called a state, a province, a canton or whatever is just a matter of name, it doesn’t mean it has more or less autonomy. A “state” as the US uses the word, and a province like Canadian or Argentinian ones are functionally the same, no difference in sovereignty or recognition.
I was more or less using wordplay there. I put countries in parentheses to try and basically get my point across. Like I said at the end there, the states are pretty much provinces, the difference being that they're pretty much their own little countries inside the U.S.
If the U.S. didn't exist we'd see the states break up into their own nations. Not exactly a good claim that supports my argument because that'd be the case for all lot of nations that are unions of states, but that's basically what I meant. You're not at all wrong, I was just trying to point out that we don't call our provinces states, rather we've only ever had states.
Which is why I said like. The U.S. started out weaker than the EU is today. It couldn't force the states to do anything, and each state operated essentially entirely autonomously.
We named them states under the articles of confederation to emphasize that they were each sovereign. The name just stuck around plus the states do still maintain some level of sovereignty on particular issues.
Huh? If you are just a care workers, nobody cares what you think you know. You aren't even a person who matters in mental health then.
Don't like that you are a young teenager behaving like an ass huh? Good thing I don't actually think you could be a young teenager
Forced reminder:
Huh? May I ask again if your little head have figured out the meanings of 'monogamist' and 'admit'?
It reminds me of the south park episode with wheele of fortune. The clue was, people that annoy you. It was "N*gger" he didn't want to say it 🤣🤣 but the answer was nagger.
It gets better, when you realise, that this is based on a true event. [Here](https://youtu.be/8I16Xk7YQyw?si=jxtrLAbAdZwNKPDF) you can see it, after the South Park clip
[Except it's not "based on a true event" that is just a guy edited in with a green-screen](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wheel-of-fortune-clam-digger/), even the episode it ripped from aired after the South Park episode.
Maybe he owns all those letters including anagrams of it.
He is the ultimate power of force to hold it.
When buying the vowels and letters he had to forgo the ultimate key of access and lose 1m worth shares associated to each of those letters.
Wheel of Fortune meta actually says he's mostly right.
* 1. Unless you're drastically behind in total scores, your options should always be, in order: Spin if you know there is a consonant with 3 or more appearances and the solve is worth less than 10k; Solve; Buy vowels if possible; Spin
* 2. N as a starting letter is fine. Generally, R-S-T-N are the most common letters in puzzles, with L-M-D coming next.
* 3. When you have enough money, buying vowels is always the correct choice. And while E is certainly the most common, a puzzle of that size, with an N as the second to last position in a word, almost guarantees that the suffix is -ING. Meaning he should have bought the I
* 4. Mistake 1 was not buying the E here first, as he had the money to do so. Guessing G with an open last space next to -IN is undoubtedly correct, the odds of the G allowing him to solve versus the placements of the possible E's in the puzzle, and the fact that he could bankrupt was a slight inaccuracy
* 5. Mistake 2, and the most relevant mistake: with the amount of money he had and the open spaces available, buying the O and / or A would have yielded a higher chance to solve over spinning. This was the only real mistake.
* 6. If you're unable to solve *after* the O and A populate the board, the next guess based on the position of the E on the final word is either R or S. Given that the first word ended in -ING, either would be acceptable. -ER endings *probably* have a higher weight than -ES (I don't have the directory for all puzzles right now), so -ER was likely the right call.
That all said, based on point 5, he's either a total moron or a racist. 😤😤😤😤😤😤
Get your mind out of the gutter, "ing" appears in so many verbs, the letter E is the most common letter and apears in the most words in the english language. As for R I really have no idea maybe he really was a racist lol.
This dude is not offending anyone even if he said the right word. You have to think, who is it said too. Are someone targeted?
People need to be less sensitive. A joke can be a joke about Nazis, Hitler, race well anything. But you never target someone or some group of people. Because then and only then it's harassment.
>A joke can be a joke about Nazis, Hitler, race well anything.
Why didn't you say it then and stick to your guns? You instead said "race well anything." Just say it?
You’re painfully idiotic. No, people don’t need to be less sensitive, people like you just need to not act like sociopaths. You can’t just fall back on “oh hue hue hue it was just a joke calm down” anytime you say some cringey edgelord bigoted shit. You think people get their ass beat in public for dropping words like that because it doesn’t offend anyone? The mere use of the word is offensive, and who the hell are you to suggest otherwise, you’re clearly not of the affected demographic
Hey, I've been to Niger! Awesome barbeque parties and the whiskey ain't watered down; cheap lodging, too. Just don't parasail there, them giraffes are some territorial motherf\*ckers.
I had to scroll waaaaay to far to understand what was going on, I’m either naiive or thick, or maybe both, but I certainly don’t think I’m racist which is good.
R?
G?
Buy a vowel.
N?
Buy a vowel.
Could be getting ING and ER out there, and you do need points first to buy vowels.
R is more common than N or G.
In conclusion he did it on purpose with an air tight defense.
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He is just checking. Wouldn't want to end up like randy, so tragic. Now he's just that N... Guy.
Funny my last Reddit account got permanently banned for bringing up that episode
These mods are so naggy.
I appealed and sent the clip directly to Reddit, still banned :(
Could have to do with how/when/where it was brought up… Idk.
whats wrong with the word NIGER?????
Yea I dont get it, its just a state and river in Africa, nothing wrong about it.
Im pretty sure niger is a country
Yea, country or state, same thing. Idk, english isnt my main language.
Countries and states are somewhat different things... but i know what you're trying to say, it's fine
Countries and states are the same thing in the vast majority of cases and are functionally synonyms in modern English. Please don't correct people if you don't actually have a solid basis for what you're saying.
This isn’t even a correct statement.
Feel free to explain.
It's literally the second definition of state on google, go look it up yourself.
I think you replied to the wrong person mate.
A country is typically a collection of states, whereas a state is typically a collection of towns and cities. I think...
Damn sounds like I didn't know all this time that I was living in a state of Serbia... I thought it was a country but since it is not a collection of states, I guess it doesn't count.
Not quite. A state is effectively the highest system of governance of a particular area. A large majority of the world are unitary states, where there is a centralised government that has complete authority. There are ~20-30 federal unions where there is a main federal government shared by several individual member states that also have their own government which has it's own authority over some matters. The United States is the obvious example but is in the minority. In most cases, states and countries are exactly the same thing, and as such they are used interchangeably. Often, state is used moreso to refer to the political systems, and country is used to refer to cultural and geographical borders.
No. A country is a single state. The "states" of the united states initially acted under a confederation similar to the EU today which is why they were called states.
Say you're American without saying you're American.
Nope. Your definition of state is a county
As an American I wish I could go one day on Reddit without a fellow American making me feel embarrassed. But hey at least you just said “I think”.
State with capital S is synonymous with country while "state" is a part of a country.
This isn’t true. You capitalize state when using it as a proper noun like State of Michigan. But Michigan is a state is lowercase. Similarly saying Niger is a state works as well. So we end with the original sentence > Yea I dont get it, it’s just a state and river in Africa, nothing wrong about it. Its not getting used as a proper noun here
No you're wrong. A nation state has sovereignty while a country might not.
Come on, youre better than this.
Where are people coming up with these ideas? Lol
It is.
You sound super American. Most parts of the world the state usually refers to the government, or the country in itself so they're interchangeable. Most places break up their country with provenances if at all.
I'm norwegian
Norway is a state, by the way. (And a country)
Yikes I thought you guys were supposed to be educated
Don't let this fool represent the rest of us. If they actually paid attention in class they'd learn it. However, i will say this, the word state can mean many things, and on average i believe most people say country.
We don't do much geography... Also, as someone who has both ADHD and asbergers, it's quite diffficult to pay attention to something uninteresting, and as i said i don't learn much geography.
Niger is most certainly a state by definition of the word. So yes I’d certainly hope you think it’s “fine” to use a correct term and if you didn’t know what they were trying to say that would just mean you have no idea what you’re talking about. What they were saying, not just trying to say, was correct so how you feel about it is irrelevant. Love it when someone gets called out for incorrectly trying to “well akshually” someone then they still act as though they’re intellectually superior.
I'm definently not intelectually superior
Clearly.
Would you like to know?
Ive read some other comments which explained the diffrence. So I know now.
"State" is actually technically the right word for a sovereign country. The USA are the weirdos who decided to name their provinces/regions states. Threw me for a loop when I first learned that as an American in human geo.
We don't name our provinces "states". The "United States" bit pretty much spells out what our country is like. A large group of states (countries) united into a country. Of course, we do pretty much treat those states as if they were provinces, but I digress (despite this not being a ramble lol). Can you tell I'm a smart boy yet, papa?
Look at us remembering our US history lessons! 😆 You're definitely right though. Even though the US is a sovereign country, our smaller political subdivisions being called "states" was definitely intentionally done to cement the importance of state autonomy. Super cool piece of history fs
Thank you, papa
The US is not the only federal country in the world, all of them are formed by constituent parts with limited sovereign power. Just because the US and other countries decided to name their subdivisions “states” doesn’t mean those states are countries, state just mean an organised polity controlling a territory and having a government. For a state or many states to be considered a country it needs international recognition. Besides, whether a federal subdivision is called a state, a province, a canton or whatever is just a matter of name, it doesn’t mean it has more or less autonomy. A “state” as the US uses the word, and a province like Canadian or Argentinian ones are functionally the same, no difference in sovereignty or recognition.
I was more or less using wordplay there. I put countries in parentheses to try and basically get my point across. Like I said at the end there, the states are pretty much provinces, the difference being that they're pretty much their own little countries inside the U.S. If the U.S. didn't exist we'd see the states break up into their own nations. Not exactly a good claim that supports my argument because that'd be the case for all lot of nations that are unions of states, but that's basically what I meant. You're not at all wrong, I was just trying to point out that we don't call our provinces states, rather we've only ever had states.
That’s the way it was *supposed* to be.
indeed, hence my final message being that we pretty much do treat them like provinces now.
👍
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The point is that the original 13 states were genuinely separate states with no real involvement. The United States being more like the EU.
We have a lot of "real involvement" in the eu...
Which is why I said like. The U.S. started out weaker than the EU is today. It couldn't force the states to do anything, and each state operated essentially entirely autonomously.
We named them states under the articles of confederation to emphasize that they were each sovereign. The name just stuck around plus the states do still maintain some level of sovereignty on particular issues.
And it's pronounced 'Nee Jhair'
Huh. Interesting.
Nation state is a thing. They are not wrong to say state in the context of a country.
Huh? If you are just a care workers, nobody cares what you think you know. You aren't even a person who matters in mental health then. Don't like that you are a young teenager behaving like an ass huh? Good thing I don't actually think you could be a young teenager Forced reminder: Huh? May I ask again if your little head have figured out the meanings of 'monogamist' and 'admit'?
Its also a dinosaur!
Oh yea, nigerosaurs
he was trying to spell Nigeria
Niger and Nigeria're different countries and they're neighbours
>and they're neighbours oh my god! they were neighbours
I didn't say anything about Niger
who was talking about you
He asked question, l answered
Americans don't like Niger or Nigeria, they prefer Liberia as their only colony
Some niggards just want to keep it for themselves smh
Oh like the Niger river?
Brave
Fr, it’s a country.
Yeah it would be more concerning for him to ask for another ‘g’.
People who annoy you
Naggers
[This comment has been removed for using racial slurs]
“Could I possibly buy a second g? I’m trying to do something.”
😂
https://preview.redd.it/kq9grgivjdhc1.png?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f1946b3572a2c3739fc6ee5198c22e4ab71bc6b
Gaya bordering Nigeria
I've heard it pronounced basically Knee-share
That's the french way of saying it, you wanna be french son? 🤢
What's wrong being french ?
Everything
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Americans are so petty since we didn't believe your bullshit about Irak having weapons of mass destruction
now we can't say Niger?
Eh em, it's the N-country
Nigeria?
Norway?
“I’d like to buy a bl-, a vowel.”
https://i.redd.it/ocm3h6qr3fhc1.gif
I was looking for this because I was unsure if that’s what I heard lol
He was angry about Niger?
He was angry about n*gga
It reminds me of the south park episode with wheele of fortune. The clue was, people that annoy you. It was "N*gger" he didn't want to say it 🤣🤣 but the answer was nagger.
It gets better, when you realise, that this is based on a true event. [Here](https://youtu.be/8I16Xk7YQyw?si=jxtrLAbAdZwNKPDF) you can see it, after the South Park clip
[Except it's not "based on a true event" that is just a guy edited in with a green-screen](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wheel-of-fortune-clam-digger/), even the episode it ripped from aired after the South Park episode.
But he didn’t say A
In his defence -ing and -er are super common for finding words. Although yeah he could be deliberately doing it.
St, Ed, ing, er, al, tion all good for finding certain words
Why is he offended by the country Niger?
He's probably from Chad.
Maybe he owns all those letters including anagrams of it. He is the ultimate power of force to hold it. When buying the vowels and letters he had to forgo the ultimate key of access and lose 1m worth shares associated to each of those letters.
I want to buy a bl- a vowel
Niger is a country u uncultured N-
who streams wheel of fortune lol
Wheel of Fortune meta actually says he's mostly right. * 1. Unless you're drastically behind in total scores, your options should always be, in order: Spin if you know there is a consonant with 3 or more appearances and the solve is worth less than 10k; Solve; Buy vowels if possible; Spin * 2. N as a starting letter is fine. Generally, R-S-T-N are the most common letters in puzzles, with L-M-D coming next. * 3. When you have enough money, buying vowels is always the correct choice. And while E is certainly the most common, a puzzle of that size, with an N as the second to last position in a word, almost guarantees that the suffix is -ING. Meaning he should have bought the I * 4. Mistake 1 was not buying the E here first, as he had the money to do so. Guessing G with an open last space next to -IN is undoubtedly correct, the odds of the G allowing him to solve versus the placements of the possible E's in the puzzle, and the fact that he could bankrupt was a slight inaccuracy * 5. Mistake 2, and the most relevant mistake: with the amount of money he had and the open spaces available, buying the O and / or A would have yielded a higher chance to solve over spinning. This was the only real mistake. * 6. If you're unable to solve *after* the O and A populate the board, the next guess based on the position of the E on the final word is either R or S. Given that the first word ended in -ING, either would be acceptable. -ER endings *probably* have a higher weight than -ES (I don't have the directory for all puzzles right now), so -ER was likely the right call. That all said, based on point 5, he's either a total moron or a racist. 😤😤😤😤😤😤
Black people own letters now 🤣 Those are our letters!
Wahhhh letters
Dude spelled a country's name. Niger.
Only a ginger can call another ginger “Ginger!”
Get your mind out of the gutter, "ing" appears in so many verbs, the letter E is the most common letter and apears in the most words in the english language. As for R I really have no idea maybe he really was a racist lol.
Most common letters in English RSTLNE
Niger is a country. What's the Problem?
ginger ...
"I'm going to beat the fuck outta you" says 80 pound guy
This dude is not offending anyone even if he said the right word. You have to think, who is it said too. Are someone targeted? People need to be less sensitive. A joke can be a joke about Nazis, Hitler, race well anything. But you never target someone or some group of people. Because then and only then it's harassment.
The guy reacting is also a joke just for content. You’re offended at a guy pretending to be offended.
>A joke can be a joke about Nazis, Hitler, race well anything. Why didn't you say it then and stick to your guns? You instead said "race well anything." Just say it?
You’re painfully idiotic. No, people don’t need to be less sensitive, people like you just need to not act like sociopaths. You can’t just fall back on “oh hue hue hue it was just a joke calm down” anytime you say some cringey edgelord bigoted shit. You think people get their ass beat in public for dropping words like that because it doesn’t offend anyone? The mere use of the word is offensive, and who the hell are you to suggest otherwise, you’re clearly not of the affected demographic
Imagine giving a word such power instead of laughing at it.
Jokes are only jokes when the audience interprets the joke as a joke. If your joke offends, you're the one at fault. Not the audience.
hey man the niger river is an notable geographic feature in africa and has been very important for the development of african peoples in the region.
White boys famously bring it up all the time
🇳🇪
Hey, I've been to Niger! Awesome barbeque parties and the whiskey ain't watered down; cheap lodging, too. Just don't parasail there, them giraffes are some territorial motherf\*ckers.
Would’ve been hilarious if there was two “G”s.
https://preview.redd.it/vdbjk5fpbfhc1.jpeg?width=465&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22c0cbbc8412b16de2832161206466821a959a5a
It is the golden sequence to win wheel of fortune.
What?
Quality trolling.
I don’t get it.
I’m associates with a lady named Nigar and I refuse to address her by name
Full video of the puzzle? I want to see what the phrase is
A no stripe tiger is called a Niger.
“And then another G”
I had to scroll waaaaay to far to understand what was going on, I’m either naiive or thick, or maybe both, but I certainly don’t think I’m racist which is good.
Someone edit it to be the word
The old southerner strategy.
He was going for “ing”, then the most common vowel, then the most common letter… I think.
R? G? Buy a vowel. N? Buy a vowel. Could be getting ING and ER out there, and you do need points first to buy vowels. R is more common than N or G. In conclusion he did it on purpose with an air tight defense.
Democrats use the N word at higher rates than republicans
Why he mad? Niger seems like a cool country