Comment on How did people end-up agreeing on the name of rivers/mountains and seas ?
nesc@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
They didn’t, a lot of shared places, or land features have different names in differsnt languages and different places. Agreements happen when something either didn’t have a name before, or when the name came from the past.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I find those funny, which just have the same word in another language for their name, like the River Avon or the Sahara Desert or even Torpenhow Hill whuch is “Hill Hill Hill Hill” in different languages.
nesc@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
There also are multiple rivers with danu root, that also means river: danube, donets, don. People aren’t exceptionally good at naming in general, so “hill” hill and “river” river. 😄
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Also town town, mountain mountain, and my favourite, river hill mountain town town.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 week ago
Wasn’t this “hill hill hill” hill name debunked by Tom Scott?
lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
idk who that is, but it’s in wikipedia
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Youtube Tom Scott, and then lose a few weeks of your life.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 week ago
youtube.com/watch?v=NUyXiiIGDTo
oo1@lemmings.world 1 week ago
You dont even need 2 languages, just a bottle of whisky.
‘Loch Lochy’ in Scotland.