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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink18•3 months agoEurope: take your pick of randos. It’s interesting that they went with the English names of some countries (i.e. “Supainu”, “Suweden” and “Porando” could have been “Esupaniya”, “Suberige” and “Porusuka” or similar) but chose native ones for some well-known countries like Germany.
minus-square@9point6link10•edit-23 months agoI think that one in particular is because Germany and Japan share a surprising amount of history with each other IIRC
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•3 months agoI expect that is has something to do with the Dutch trade monopoly with Japan. Most countries seem like pronounced as in Dutch, only japanized.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•3 months agoWe use Holland to refer to Nederland quite often, even though we aware that that isn’t correct
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•3 months agoYeah, because otherwise nobody knows what we’re talking about
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 months agoIn what world in Spain not a famous country?!
Europe: take your pick of randos.
It’s interesting that they went with the English names of some countries (i.e. “Supainu”, “Suweden” and “Porando” could have been “Esupaniya”, “Suberige” and “Porusuka” or similar) but chose native ones for some well-known countries like Germany.
I think that one in particular is because Germany and Japan share a surprising amount of history with each other IIRC
Ukraine got a native name, too!
I expect that is has something to do with the Dutch trade monopoly with Japan. Most countries seem like pronounced as in Dutch, only japanized.
But not the Netherlands itself
We use Holland to refer to Nederland quite often, even though we aware that that isn’t correct
Yeah, because otherwise nobody knows what we’re talking about
In what world in Spain not a famous country?!