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Orange Devil posted:Italy is the country where a politician named Mussolini can still somehow be successful. Nicely summed up. However, please bear in mind that for a certain generation the Mussolini years were the best time of their lives with unprecedented social welfare for poor people. My late grandma would always get starry-eyed when reminiscing about her school days in the thirties. All four of my grandparents thought the experience of living in Mussolini's Italy was far better than their latter experience of life in communist Yugoslavia. So there's a lot of nostalgia in play. I'm not trying to downplay everything that's wrong with fascism though, which is, well, pretty much everything.
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L'Angleterre Le Royaume Uni La Grande Bretagne loving UK/England/GB making everything difficult as always edit: I always thought it was "le Madagascar"
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Why don't Oman or Taiwan get articles?
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twoday posted:Why don't Oman or Taiwan get articles? Also Haiti, Israel, and Djibouti
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Orange Devil posted:Italy is the country where a politician named Mussolini can still somehow be successful. Imelda Marcos is a congressman in the Philippines. Bongbong Marcos is a senator. I'm surprised Keiko Fujimori isn't in charge of Peru
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mods change my name to Bongbong Marcos please?
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HookShot posted:L'Angleterre
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drat, the Ytterby Mine is up in the Stockholm area? I've been assuming it's in the Ytterby outside Gothenburg where my bus terminates. 
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khwarezm posted:Especially against Luigi 'all my men are cowardly traitors who must be brutalized to learn to love Italy' cadorna. Except it's Conrad von Hötzendorf vs Cadorna...
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twoday posted:Why don't Oman or Taiwan get articles? because it sounds weird
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my girlfriend is Legos posted:drat, the Ytterby Mine is up in the Stockholm area? I've been assuming it's in the Ytterby outside Gothenburg where my bus terminates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6lGe5jgZgI
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Orange Devil posted:Italy is the country where a politician named Mussolini can still somehow be successful. This is Italy. 
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Yes, I was just wrong about which Ytterby had the mine. I looked it up when I saw the map.
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Titus Sardonicus posted:Except it's Conrad von Hötzendorf vs Cadorna... Actually it was Svetozar Borojević von Bojna vs. Cadorna...
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About articles I would like to add that nearly every language I know of refers to "The Netherlands" in the plural, but in Dutch it is just the singular "Nederland." This is a holdover from the times of the Dutch Republic, which was also referred to as the "United Provinces of the Netherlands."
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Our precious provinces are no longer united 
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twoday posted:About articles I would like to add that nearly every language I know of refers to "The Netherlands" in the plural, but in Dutch it is just the singular "Nederland." Y'all are called Olanda in Japanese. Holland is Holanto. There's a bunch of confused Japanese people on Yahoo Answers Japan asking why they call you Olanda when everyone else says "The Netherlands"
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Charles Get-Out posted:Y'all are called Olanda in Japanese. Holland is Holanto. 
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Charles Get-Out posted:Y'all are called Olanda in Japanese. Holland is Holanto. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holanda
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Charles Get-Out posted:Y'all are called Olanda in Japanese. Holland is Holanto. I don't understand why in TYOOL 2017 in our global economy and information age we can't simply called Japan Nippon and The Netherlands Nederland. If people don't want to look up how to type an ñ we can just spell stuff phonetically. Let's sell some new maps people! Edit: for fun, what are some countries that English speakers would have the most difficulty pronouncing phonetically?
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So all the bad countries are masculine, essentially.
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davebo posted:I don't understand why in TYOOL 2017 in our global economy and information age we can't simply called Japan Nippon and The Netherlands Nederland. If people don't want to look up how to type an ñ we can just spell stuff phonetically. Let's sell some new maps people! For some time now, Ivory Coast has been making a little fuss about how their name is actually République de Côte d'Ivoire and would everyone please call them exactly that, instead of translations? (Everyone's still using translations.)
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gently caress off Batman posted:Actually it was Svetozar Borojević von Bojna vs. Cadorna... If anybody wants to know more about the clown car that was WW1 this youtube channel is really good. Choice videos about the guys we're talking about : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efaq1_yc61A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqqOzSEfIak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE8-_GAc7g4&t=1s
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davebo posted:I don't understand why in TYOOL 2017 in our global economy and information age we can't simply called Japan Nippon and The Netherlands Nederland. If people don't want to look up how to type an ñ we can just spell stuff phonetically. Let's sell some new maps people! I'm still not entirely sure how one is supposed to say Magyarorszag. I vaguely remember from my history of central europe classes that is is like moj-jors-jy or something
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I'm still not entirely sure how one is supposed to say Magyarorszag. I vaguely remember from my history of central europe classes that is is like moj-jors-jy or something The wikipedia article on the country has a recording right at the beginning.
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davebo posted:Edit: for fun, what are some countries that English speakers would have the most difficulty pronouncing phonetically?
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Edit: ^^ Bel-hee-ay!Powered Descent posted:For some time now, Ivory Coast has been making a little fuss about how their name is actually République de Côte d'Ivoire and would everyone please call them exactly that, instead of translations? (Everyone's still using translations.) It's still one less syllable United States of America, but I'd bee happy to write it on our maps as Repoobleek de Coat Deevwaah if we can just call them RCD or RCI in casual conversation. (You guys never come up in casual conversation anyway.) a pipe smoking dog posted:I'm still not entirely sure how one is supposed to say Magyarorszag. I vaguely remember from my history of central europe classes that is is like moj-jors-jy or something Hey I never said we had to get the accents perfect. I'm sure if a Hungarian heard me refer to Major Orsag they'd know what I meant and then quietly judge me.
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Powered Descent posted:For some time now, Ivory Coast has been making a little fuss about how their name is actually République de Côte d'Ivoire and would everyone please call them exactly that, instead of translations? (Everyone's still using translations.) Ivory Coast needs to change their names to something that is entirely different. Even Belarus and Kiribati are enough different than “Byelorussia” and “Gilbert [Islands]” to get people on board. Or they could just declare independence. It seems to be enough for Timor‐Leste. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_renaming#List_of_significant_name_changes
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I guess it's always good practice to look to the Portuguese when asking why the Japanese do a naming thing.
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davebo posted:I don't understand why in TYOOL 2017 in our global economy and information age we can't simply called Japan Nippon and The Netherlands Nederland. If people don't want to look up how to type an ñ we can just spell stuff phonetically. Let's sell some new maps people! The United States of America has no official language so I hope you're ready to say it in 27 languages whenever you mention us. Peanut President fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Mar 7, 2017 |
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davebo posted:Edit: ^^ Bel-hee-ay!
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Peanut President posted:The United States of America has no official language so I hope you're ready to say it in 27 languages whenever you mention us. I smell another Executive Order brewing!
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Peanut President posted:The United States of America has no official language so I hope you're ready to say it in 27 languages whenever you mention us.
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Hrvatska Shqipëria The Balkans have you covered for hard-to-pronounce country names.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:That's like when you say you don't have a state religion. ... entirely accurate?
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We can't even say English names right, half the time. How the gently caress does a name like 'Cholmondeley' end up being two syllables anyways?
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davebo posted:I don't understand why in TYOOL 2017 in our global economy and information age we can't simply called Japan Nippon and The Netherlands Nederland. If people don't want to look up how to type an ñ we can just spell stuff phonetically. Let's sell some new maps people! Well first you'd need all those countries to change their official English (and Spanish, and Hindi, and whatever) names. The Czechs can't even get people to call it Czechia instead of the Czech Republic after like a year, so good luck with that happening and getting respected. A Buttery Pastry posted:That's like when you say you don't have a state religion. Well, which one is it?  also found this while looking for that, which is interesting 
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I’m the overly detailed Philippines.
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Greece: not part of Western Civilization
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