alt Hacker NewsThe title should read "Saudi Arabia". Cutting a country name in half (unless its an accepted way of abbreviating it) is not a good say of modifying a headline. What is next? Zealand ?
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Some people I know from Saudi Arabia refer to it as Saudi, so maybe thats the better word? I've never heard anyone call it Arabia.
The title as it is right now is 79 characters long, the limit is 80.
Especially when arabia by itself kind of means the arabian peninsula, not saudi arabia.
People say "States" or even US all the time, usually forgetting the other country that has "United States" in their name.
Looks like the original title is too long for Hackernews
Its the Saud's Arabia. That is a family name. Signifying its the Suad part of Arabia.
Arabia existed before the Saudis. It will exist after.
I don't find it too objectionable, Saudi Arabia refers to the country and part of Arabia (the peninsula) that is under control of the House of Saud. It may be an expat affectation though. My... American family lived there when I was a child and we called it "Saudi." Flying back to Saudi, where we'd see and interact with the native Saudis. To your point about New Zealand, of course NZ would be used.
The title says Arabia because this practice of evil trillion dollar megacorps capitulating to repressive regimes happens across multiple countries recently (UAE & KSA) - just as they did w.r.t Russian accounts in the Epsteinist-occupied EU/UK.
The submitter was just trying to fit HN's 80 char limit for titles. We've adjusted it now.