To add insult to injury, what they call it, Deutschland, sounds like what we should call Netherlands

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    2 months ago

    Wait till you find out that Germans have different words for all the other things we have words for, too!

    Seriously though, the names of countries are just words. There’s no reason to expect them to be the same in different languages.

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      2 months ago

      I’ve always wanted to make a map that used the native names for countries instead of their English/American names.

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          2 months ago

          Looks like they specifically chose the official English names for countries even when the indigenous name is also official.

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            2 months ago

            They explain the methodology - where there is more than one official name, the name in the language with the most speakers in that country is used.

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                  I mean it’s mostly a criticism of whoever suggested this map as a way to see country names in the language of the country, rather than just English.

                  But it’s also kind of a pointless map as it’s not useful to an English speaker but it doesn’t commit to teaching you indigenous place names either.