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I can open your link, but as someone who’s Dutch, the way this all works in English is so absurd. Here we call Germany “Duitsland” and they speak “Duits”. This is quite similar to what they say themselves, “Deutschland” and “Deutsch”. We call our country “Nederland” and our language “Nederlands”. This is again similar in German.

Then why is English “Germany”, “German” and “Holland”/“The Netherlands” and “Dutch”. It’s so silly. There are of course historic reasons, but can’t we all just collectively change it?

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Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Face it, even the Anglophones know what you speak is simply Drunk German. :P

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tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

as someone who’s Dutch, the way this all works in English is so absurd

Yeah but don’t you say Japan instead of Nihon/Nippon? Every language does this to a certain extent.

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Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I think we can - but just see how many people in your country call Turkey Türkiye (they made a request back in 2022) - and that was just one country, not all.

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- Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  They already call it Turkije which is a lot closer to Türkiye.
  
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  - Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That’s admirable! I looked it up in translate and got a completely different result. I think I know what was going on : ) 🦃
    
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    Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Never trust machine translation to know what you’re talking about ;)
    
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- samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Instructions unclear, I now eat türkiye for Thanksgiving.
  
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