Timeline for "Nation": place or people?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:38 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 31, 2012 at 16:23 | vote | accept | JAM | ||
| May 4, 2012 at 23:10 | comment | added | Jed Oliver | If you're seeking advice on how use nation as a creative metaphor for a child's imagination, you might want to consider migrating this question over to writers.stackexchange.com | |
| May 4, 2012 at 22:59 | answer | added | user20276 | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 4, 2012 at 22:32 | answer | added | T.E.D. | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 4, 2012 at 22:12 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | If you write that a small child fills his tiny nation it probably doesn't make any difference, since small children live in worlds of their own, where these territorial / ethnosociological distinctions simply don't exist. | |
| May 4, 2012 at 21:48 | answer | added | Simon Jester | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 4, 2012 at 21:40 | comment | added | Ivan Machado | In my humble opinion, it (solely) depends on the context. "Nation" may be assumed as having either of both meanings. I don't think there is a kind of rule to be followed in this case. | |
| May 4, 2012 at 21:16 | history | asked | JAM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |