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You can make too much of this. Countries regularly have different names for foreign or shared places. The "English Channel" is "La Manche", Cologne is Köln. Lik
by beardyw 25d ago
You can make too much of this. Countries regularly have different names for foreign or shared places. The "English Channel" is "La Manche", Cologne is Köln. Like the English language, it's pretty much down to "that's what I call it". If people continue to call it "Lake Ontario" that's what it will be.
- amiga386 25d agoIt's a country's leader petulantly ordering their entire country to call a lake by a new name that wrongly implies it belongs to them, which it doesn't, in order to spite their main trading partner because they rejected a trade deal that would massively harm them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_politically_motivated_renamings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_politically_motivated_...
- beardyw 25d agoThanks for the link. Going through those, it looks as if only about 50% stuck, mostly from World War II, so here's hoping. I'm not sure if using the name is in any way enforced?
- Hilliard_Ohiooo 25d ago[dead]
- mdp2021 25d agoThat is not the point. Are you trying to minimize the phenomenon and cause and root? The point is, the actions taken by the appointed, what they reveal, the reactions from other parts, what they reveal, what will come next. The disagreeing part better formulate an argument.
- mdp2021 25d agoIf the snipers had the notion that what they do is accruing contempt.