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The Czech Republic just changed it's name to Czechia for market branding purposes.
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Palpek posted:In other Polish news Lech Walesa takes the initiative: In other Polish news, Lech Walesa has mellted.
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NAT-T Ice posted:In other Polish news, Lech Walesa has mellted. It's really Clayface and he's losing his ability to hold Lech's form! 
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NAT-T Ice posted:In other Polish news, Lech Walesa has mellted.
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Grouchio posted:The Czech Republic just changed it's name to Czechia for market branding purposes. Why the gently caress Czechia, I always thought they would go for Bohemia. Not that it is already used, it is also pretty smooth. Prečo bratia prečo ?! 
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The BBC documentary I'm in on MH17 is out on May 3rd, on BBC Two, details here. I believe I get put against claims made by RT and Consortium News, plus others, so that should be fun.
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About time, I have been getting fed up constantly saying 'Czech Republic' this or 'Czech republic' that in a conversation. Historically, Estonians have referred to Bohemia and Morava as 'Böömimaa' and 'Määrimaa' (where 'maa' is land). Our 'ä' sounds like 'a' in American pronunciation of "fast", and not like how it's pronounced in German. That's what I found out when I was in Germany. But Tšehhi and Tšehhia have been used anyway.
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Looking forward to more people than just Sarah Palin confusing Czechia with Chechnya
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never trust an elf posted:Looking forward to more people than just Sarah Palin confusing Czechia with Chechnya http://www.mzv.cz/washington/en/czech_u_s_relations/news/statement_of_the_ambassador_of_the_czech.html
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Earlier someone posted a poll on Polish opinions of various ethnic groups. Here is one of Ukrainian opinion on countries (and one multi-country entity): I think you can guess the colors, and the names are, top to bottom: Poland Belarus EU Georgia Canada Lithuania USA Germany Moldova Turkey Russia Wonder what they would have gotten were they to ask about the Netherlands...
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Czechia and Chechnya, Slovakia and Slovenia, strolling hand-in-hand through a garden maze of potential misunderstandings...
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TheWeepingHorse posted:Czechia and Chechnya, Slovakia and Slovenia, strolling hand-in-hand through a garden maze of potential misunderstandings... Thankfully the name Ruthenia is out of style...
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Impressive result for Poland.
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alex314 posted:Impressive result for Poland. We're preparing the ground for "helping" the Polish population in Western Ukraine.
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Kaczelnik would cream his pantaloons if he could be the one to "make Poland empire between two seas" again.
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Considering how many people I know who still call the country Czechoslovakia in year of our lord 2016, this will certainly clarify what country Czechia is with everyone. A friend on facebook tagged me to a picture that someone told him was recent and from Eastern Europe. A quick tineye search revealed the first time the picture was published was in 2009 on a Japanese website. He apologized.
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OddObserver posted:Earlier someone posted a poll on Polish opinions of various ethnic groups. Here is one of Ukrainian opinion on countries (and one multi-country entity): Ukrainians are impressively ambivalent, is my takeaway from this.
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steinrokkan posted:Ukrainians are impressively ambivalent, is my takeaway from this. I would say: they either like you or don't care unless you invade them.
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steinrokkan posted:Ukrainians are impressively ambivalent, is my takeaway from this. Depression does that 
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alex314 posted:Kaczelnik would cream his pantaloons if he could be the one to "make Poland empire between two seas" again. Lol, we have one of the most ethnically homogeneous countries in the world and we can barely hold it together, imagine what trying to rule over a deeply multi-ethnic, multi-cultural nation like Miedzymorze was supposed to be would be like. Pilsudski was a great man, but always a bit of an optimist I think.
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Palpek posted:In other Polish news Lech Walesa takes the initiative: "I won't shoot, but I'm not too old to carry a club!" 
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A Pale Horse posted:Lol, we have one of the most ethnically homogeneous countries in the world and we can barely hold it together, imagine what trying to rule over a deeply multi-ethnic, multi-cultural nation like Miedzymorze was supposed to be would be like. Pilsudski was a great man, but always a bit of an optimist I think. Pilsudski also led a deeply multi ethnic, multicultural nation, so Miedzymorze was just "a little" more of the same. gently caress I tear up everytime when I think about what we lost because of WW2
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GreyjoyBastard posted:"I won't shoot, but I'm not too old to carry a club!" First President of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk has offered to man a machine gun against the Russians a year or so ago. He was somewhere between 80 and 81 or so at the time 
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A Pale Horse posted:Lol, we have one of the most ethnically homogeneous countries in the world and we can barely hold it together, imagine what trying to rule over a deeply multi-ethnic, multi-cultural nation like Miedzymorze was supposed to be would be like. Pilsudski was a great man, but always a bit of an optimist I think. Piłsudski was Naczelnik, I'll let you guess who is called Kaczelnik 
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OddObserver posted:First President of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk has offered to man a machine gun against the Russians a year or so ago. He was somewhere between 80 and 81 or so at the time Polish version of The Expendables sounds promising.
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yogizh posted:Why the gently caress Czechia, I always thought they would go for Bohemia. Not that it is already used, it is also pretty smooth. Prečo bratia prečo ?! Yeah, but Moravia and Czech Silesia aren't part of Bohemia, so that won't work. Ruthenia is nowhere near the Czech Republic so that doesn't work either.
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steinrokkan posted:Ukrainians are impressively ambivalent, is my takeaway from this. A Pale Horse posted:Depression does that
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TheWeepingHorse posted:Czechia and Chechnya, Slovakia and Slovenia, strolling hand-in-hand through a garden maze of potential misunderstandings... Yeah I was gonna bring that up. Czech Republic had to occasionally deny being Chechnya already because Americans are stupid. Changing it to Czechia, that's just making it sound MORE like Chechnya!
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Latvia/Lithuania too. Just gonna cross-post these instances of Czech confusion from the maps thread quote:Hah apparently somebody put together a huge imgur gallery. Enjoy: http://imgur.com/a/RpAK0 mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Apr 15, 2016 |
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I got sick of calling it "The Czech Republic" every time and just shortened it to "Czech town" or "czechland" or of course Bohemia. Just call it bohemia you guys.
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Baronjutter posted:Just call it bohemia you guys. You are not my real dad!
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Illyria wasn't Yugoslavia's real dad either. loving morons.
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chairface posted:Yeah I was gonna bring that up. Czech Republic had to occasionally deny being Chechnya already because Americans are stupid. Changing it to Czechia, that's just making it sound MORE like Chechnya! Who are these Americans you're finding that actually know what Chechnya is? Hell even after the Boston Bombings I'm not sure 50%would know.
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NAT-T Ice posted:Who are these Americans you're finding that actually know what Chechnya is?
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Maybe German-Americans have trouble with them? Tschetschenien - Tschechien
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