i was talking to my american friend today and something occurred to me
out of sociolinguistic interest, 1) where are you from? and 2) if someone from the same country as you started talking about ‘the war’ (without any context as to which), which war would you assume they meant?
Russia/WW2 (which is true for everyone here, and it is mostly called simply “the war”)
America/WW2 usually.
Except that with very low amounts of context it can either be the ~Global War On Terror~ or WWI.
America.
I would usually assume “The War On Terror” or something, although that’s rather vague. Could be Iraq, Afghanistan, Lybia, or even possibly Syria are all in a giant clusterfuck I collectively think of as “The War,” even though levels of US involvement vary wildly.
Austria/WW2, although it would be kind of weird if it was someone my age. (Older people frequently talk about “the war” and mean WW2, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone my age do that - they usually say which war they mean.)
I mean yeah, I would normally guess either WWII or Vietnam depending on the person’s age, but OP specified no context.
Finland, WW2, or as they call it around here, “that time when we didn’t get our asses completely kicked by the russians” and “that time we totally weren’t allied with the germans despite fighting side by side and getting all our stuff from them and planning our entire glorious future on their victory”.
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