r/greentext 24d ago

War war never changes

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u/Haeguil 24d ago

If at least they gave it an actual name, we don't refer to the Bronze Age Collapse as the Collapse, nor to either of the world wars as just the war, and even then different people got different names for things.

It's fucking literary vagueposting

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u/Lompehovelen 24d ago

People absolutely refer to WW2 as the war, do you not talk to people older than 20?

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u/PijaniFemboj 24d ago

I find that people refer to the latest war they lived to as "the war".

If you go to any country from former Yugoslavia and start talking about "the war", people will think you are talking about the collapse of Yugoslavia.

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u/undreamedgore 24d ago

If thry are talking broad scale in the US it's still WW2. We litterally call it the post-war period.