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Trabant posted:Germans being known by six different names by the rest of Europe is just fantastic: Also, Germany is Germania in Italian, but Germans are tedeschi. Remember that If you ever go to Monaco di Baviera Munich
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Also, Germany is Germania in Italian, but Germans are tedeschi. Remember that If you ever go to Monaco di Baviera Munich This feels like an insult to both Munich and Monaco at the same time.
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Carbon dioxide posted:"Deutsch" itself comes from a word that means something like "of the people" A lot of names in Native American languages for their own tribe or culture is like this. A lot of the common names we use for tribes are exonyms, either from colonists or in a different native language of the people who first pointed them out to a colonist. Navajo language word for their people is Diné, and the exonym Navajo that stuck was probably a word from their Pueblo neighbors meaning "the farmers in that valley" Tohono O'odham is their own word for "desert people", and in pre-20th century sources they're usually referred to as Papago, anglicized from a neighboring O'odham tribe's word meaning "the bean eaters" Comanche autonym is numunuu, also just "the people", and their exonym Comanche comes from a Ute word meaning "enemy" One of my favorite Native American autonyms is the one the Pawnee use, chatiks si chatiks, or "men of men"  The exonyms given by other tribes are often pretty unflattering. "Bean eaters", "enemy", "farmers", and the frequent variations of "people who talk weird" isn't so bad. There are also names like "dog eaters" (Pawnee and Caddoan language name for Arapaho tribe), "throat cutters" (Pawnee, again, for Lakota people), and straight up "cannibals" for Carib (the Arawak were "the good ones").
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Mr. Sunshine posted:Technically, Hess was number 2 in the nazi party before he ran off to England, and after that it was Göring. But I have a hard time seeing either of those two coming out on top of the absolute clusterfuck that would be a succession crisis in nazi Germany. Maybe Göring, if he allied with Himmler and settled for being führer in name only.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Also, Germany is Germania in Italian, but Germans are tedeschi. Remember that If you ever go to Monaco di Baviera Munich That's the same for Russia, nemtsy live in Germaniya.
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Tunicate posted:Depending on timing, I could maybe see Canaris surviving the shootout long enough to surrender to the allies. Dunno man, he didn't really have any of the nazi apparatchiks on his side. Maybe if it came down to a Valkyria-style coup...
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Þjóðverji, the Icelandic term for a German, means roughly "Nationite".
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Aug 23, 2021 23:23
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The Finnish word for Swedes means "Swedish" 
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The Canadian word for Americans means "assholes"
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The Finnish word for Swedes means "Swedish" I thought it meant Russian.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I thought it meant Russian. That's later.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The Finnish word for Swedes means "Swedish" drat, that's hosed up
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canyoneer posted:A lot of names in Native American languages for their own tribe or culture is like this. A lot of the common names we use for tribes are exonyms, either from colonists or in a different native language of the people who first pointed them out to a colonist. The Navajo, in turn, gave us “Anasazi”, meaning “enemy ancestors”. The Hopi and other Puebloans are not great fans of this term.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I thought it meant Russian. It's Russian that means Swedish
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Carthag Tuek posted:It's Russian that means Swedish Oh yeah the English word for Russian means Swedish. I guess because the Swedes basically created and ran Russia for some time? Add that to their list of sins.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The Finnish word for Swedes means "Swedish" The Finnish word for Finns means "swamp people".
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Zopotantor posted:The Finnish word for Finns means "swamp people". Lmao at this ignoramus who doesn't know swamps from bogs. 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 11:53 on Aug 24, 2021 |
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Aug 24, 2021 11:51
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Bogs are the lovely versions of fens.
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Platystemon posted:Bogs are the lovely versions of fens. Fens are desparkled marshlands, get out of my face
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Platystemon posted:The Navajo, in turn, gave us “Anasazi”, meaning “enemy ancestors”. When I first heard that you're not supposed to use "Eskimo" I assumed it was bastardized French or something and that's why they don't like it. Nope, it comes from the languages of their southern neighbors who have been oppressing them a lot longer than Europeans (the Inuit weren't living in an arctic wasteland just for funsies.)
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Lmao at this ignoramus who doesn't know swamps from bogs. Perhaps wet people need to know the difference, I live in a dry place.
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those damp wet mossy swampy BASTARDS
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Zopotantor posted:Perhaps wet people need to know the difference, I live in a dry place. Oh hey get hosed Ben Shapiro.
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verbal enema posted:Finnish people
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In Ireland we have rude terms for people who live in marshy areas - we call them boghoppers and mucksavages.
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Pookah posted:In Ireland we have rude terms for people who live in marshy areas - we call them boghoppers and mucksavages. In Norway we call them danes.
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Zopotantor posted:Perhaps wet people need to know the difference, I live in a dry place. Ferengi has two hundred words for rain and no word for 'crisp'.
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Traditional Finnish food: porridge made from berries you picked from the forest and/or swamp and whatever grains you may have.
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That (+ some fish) was Tollund Man's last meal.
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Sadly the finns are so poor they cannot afford the fish
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Fish is plentiful from the 100 000 lakes, byproduct of all the bogs from glacial rebound, and the sea. It just isn't mixed into the porridge, at least not at school. 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Sadly the finns are so poor they cannot afford the fish Poor, huh. *sells foreigners some wind* 
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canyoneer posted:A lot of names in Native American languages for their own tribe or culture is like this. A lot of the common names we use for tribes are exonyms, either from colonists or in a different native language of the people who first pointed them out to a colonist. there's two lakes and a town in Western Canada called slave lake because the Cree called the people there slaves on account of how they raided and enslaved them all the time
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The US portion of the former New France is like 50% anglicized versions of francofied versions of indigenous words meaning "those fuckers over there"
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jsoh posted:there's two lakes and a town in Western Canada called slave lake because the Cree called the people there slaves on account of how they raided and enslaved them all the time wtf apparently this is true The word the Cree actually used was awahkaan. This doesn’t sound like “slave”, but that is its literal meaning. Europeans were like “You use the same word for people forced to work in bondage and your northern neighbors? Great idea. We will do the same in our language.”
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the holy poopacy posted:When I first heard that you're not supposed to use "Eskimo" I assumed it was bastardized French or something and that's why they don't like it. Nope, it comes from the languages of their southern neighbors who have been oppressing them a lot longer than Europeans (the Inuit weren't living in an arctic wasteland just for funsies.) This is almost right, except the Inuit are the invaders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit#Post-contact_history The history of the North (migratory invasion waves, pre-colonization contact with Vikings, a loving Iron meteor that crashed in the snow and bestowed the entire area with magic space metal that was harder than bone) is fascinating.
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GolfHole posted:a loving Iron meteor that crashed in the snow and bestowed the entire area with magic space metal that was harder than bone
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Bog iron is cool, except that it comes from bogs, which we have established are bad.
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