Its a common term for the USA that has no other meaning. The content is North America, the two continents are the Americas. No ambiguity.

Europe properly means the continent so it is far more like saying "North America puts man on moon" than saying "America puts man on moon".

Ambiguity is always bad.

Some people say its clear, but I am sure a lot of others thought an EU agency reconnected with a spacecraft.

Its interesting that people get so upset about asking for correct and unambiguous language.

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wat10000 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

“America” has no other meaning? So USA means United States of USA?

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margalabargala 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Exactly, their name is a zip bomb.

	▲	wat10000 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Doing recursive acronyms centuries before it was cool.

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close04 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Its a common term for the USA that has no other meaning

Except, you know, the only “other” meaning of “America” is just literally the alternative name for Americas, both continents. Here is an obscure link to the description [0]. Even if you want to refer to North America, what about Mexico and Canada?

The less you know, the less ambiguous it is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas