RE: Countries have different names in different languages
June 24, 2021 at 4:34 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2021 at 4:43 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 24, 2021 at 7:01 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: Then there's the USA.
Do we call it the United States of America?
Or the United States?
Or The US?
Or America?
Or Youelectedwhoasyourpresidentyoudumbfucks?
We don’t call ourselves that. We lack the attention span to go even a third of the way through that.
(June 24, 2021 at 5:49 am)Dundee Wrote: Countries have different names in different languages.
Now some say that it would be a point of Honour and Politeness to call all countries be the names that they use themselves.
What do you think about it?
As an example:
May we say Hungary, or must we say Magyarország, the way the country calls itself?
Not practical.
Especially for multilingual countries that call itself by different names according to the language. But generally for most countries whose language contain sounds or pronunciation rules substantially different from your own.