[coldtea]

>Are you calling North America "America", and then go on and call Florida "south America", as if there isn't such a place in the world as South America?

Depending on the geography class you took, and where, there might not be a "South America". Some countries just call the whole continent America:

Most North Americans are taught that there are 7 continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe and Australia/Oceania. In some textbooks, North and South America are combined into "America" and/or Europe and Asia are combined into "Eurasia", for a grant total of 6 or even 5.

I do not approve of your 7-continent view of the World, as if it was the only one.

[balthasar]

A Eurocentric viewpoint to combine South and North America. Its very obviously two continents from a geographical and cultural point of view.

[coldtea]

>Its very obviously two continents from a geographical and cultural point of view.

Culturally? Really? What's so different culturally between Colombia, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and say, Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala Costa Rica to warrant each set belonging to another continent?

[yousir]

As you are fully aware you are well within your rights to not approve. But if you call the whole continent America then surely its very southern part will not be Florida.

[coldtea]

The USA is also called America in short by most of the world. Not just the continent.

Sometimes languages use the same name for different things, and people can trivially disambiguate from context.