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Yes because otherwise they would have fact checked that there's no lake Geneva.
by bobim 2y ago
Yes because otherwise they would have fact checked that there's no lake Geneva.
- uhoh-itsmaciek 2y agoLake Geneva is the English name commonly used to refer to Lac Léman. I suspect you know that, but I don't follow why you object to that name.
- bobim 2y agoInteresting, that's the equivalent of me unilaterally calling New York "Nouvelle Amsterdam" then. But it was simply to tickle Geneva's people.
- krisoft 2y ago> that's the equivalent of me unilaterally calling New York "Nouvelle Amsterdam" then This is very common. The name used by the locals is called endonym and the one used by foreigners is the exonym. For example Zhōnghuá is the endonym vs China the exonym. Or Magyarország vs Hungary. Or Deutschland vs Germany. Or so I not just list English exonyms Lake Balaton vs Plattensee.
- djmips 2y agoGerman and Deutsch