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I always found it silly when countries insist to be called differently in foreign languages. Imagine Germans doing that!
by Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
I always found it silly when countries insist to be called differently in foreign languages. Imagine Germans doing that!
- Ekaros 4y agoI always find it even more silly and matronising and insulting that other countries don't adopt the way country calls itself. If that one would be relatively simple and easy to do.
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y agoYeah, right. Why stop at insisting on calling China "Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó" [0]? Clearly, all foreigners should properly call it 中国! [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31591852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31591852
- jhgb 4y agoYou find it "silly" that other languages with their own rules don't adopt phrases which may be impossible to use within those languages? For example in the Czech language there's nothing "relatively simple and easy to do" about using "Turkey" or "Türkiye" in Czech sentences since it's impossible to inflect these words using Czech case suffixes, so the official name of the country in Czech is "Turecko" simply so that you could actually use it in sentences without getting a brain aneurysm.