Olly Bowman
Region: AU
Sunday 08 January 2023 09:38:39 GMT
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Yawa :
Egypt = Masr & Japan = Nihon
2023-01-10 03:44:22
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Marcel Kirst :
Most Latin-American countries don’t have translations though
2023-01-11 01:00:21
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Chloë Ní Uaithnín :
A lot of the time it’s down to colonialism, Ireland is Eire [air-ah] in Irish but due to English occupation it became Ireland
2023-01-08 13:06:54
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Mary_queen🇨🇦 :
Canada stays the same in most languages I think ! 🇨🇦🇨🇦
2023-01-10 00:41:04
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bfx93 :
Don’t even talk about Germany… Deutschland, Tyskland, Allemagne, Niemcy, Saksa…. Like, was there some big conference where no one could agree?! 😂
2023-01-08 09:58:50
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What do you mean the names don't have meanings? Do you think we just pull the names out of our hats?
2023-01-09 04:38:27
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Niav in Croatia ✨ :
THIS! This throws me.
2023-01-09 12:48:21
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elin :
And like the swedish city Göteborg, why is it gothenburg in english
2023-01-08 14:51:21
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Istrellanes🇳🇴 :
English speaker even translate people's names. So rude! They visit Greece and start calling people "George" and such
2023-01-08 13:37:03
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grete0948 :
Venezia is like Venice or venedig, Praha is Prague,Wien is vienna it doesnt make sence
2023-01-13 21:59:27
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Nickolai :
Like spain.. why do we say spain… they don’t say that at all, they call it espana with the enye that i dont have in my keyboard
2023-01-09 18:42:40
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Lawrence Pique :
I have always wondered that too
2023-01-08 09:56:36
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Daniel Gotzens :
Same thing with royalty. Why is Kaiser Wilhelm called William/Guillaume/Guillermo/Vilim/Γουλιέλμος/…
2023-01-08 13:57:38
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Ali :
Morocco is “Fas” in turkish how did they even come up with that name
2023-01-10 08:29:25
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SkVaSjNeCh :
No need to have different langs at all, just the way it is, I actually don’t see why countries/cities would be an exception. Besides, Norway is a —>
2023-01-08 15:21:30
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Mercedes M :
because differnt languages have different alphabets and sounds ofc
2023-01-10 22:19:27
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harald.almas :
Japan - Nipon, way bigger difference. And Greece - Hellas (I think)
2023-01-08 11:25:37
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vika :
it has to be “assimilated” in every language, so it will be easy to pronounce, not every country is possible to pronounce words in other languages
2023-01-10 00:02:09
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Kuutar84🇫🇮 :
I have been thinking the same thing. We finns call Finland Suomi. Why cant others use Suomi?
2023-01-08 13:23:15
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Zainab Ahmed :
And when u learn a new language u have to learn how to say the countries in that language 🤦🏻♀️
2023-01-08 12:55:49
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Jioden 🦘 :
Norway = Norþweg or northway which also makes the g in Norwegian make sense. They’re the people from the north.
2023-01-08 13:13:49
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scroogemcqueef :
Endonyms and exonyms!
2023-01-08 09:46:27
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Cxxn :
Good luck pronouncing Magyarország.
2023-01-15 12:10:40
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