Submitted 4 hours ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to memes@sopuli.xyz
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When I was in Japan, I asked a receptionist if England-language was okay. Japanese has a word for “English”, it just didn’t exist in my head in that second. I still think about this 12 years later.
(Also, everything else is country-language too, France-language, Germany-language, China-language, Japan-language, why does England-language get to be special, why, Japanese people, why?!)
It’s because “England” has a Japanese style adjective-country formation (英国), which then follows the native pattern for language (英語). By contrast, “Germany” (ドイツ) and “France” (フランス) are borrowed phonetically.
To your complaint about “Japan-language”, note that Japan’s official name is 日本国.
What I can’t explain is why 国 comes along for the ride when it’s China. (中国語)
Don’t worry, ‘the Netherlands’ is also not what it’s called here
And the French are from Frenchland, right?
Franzosen aus Frankreich
And the English are from Englishland and the Spanish are from Spanishland, and the Portuguese are from Portugueseland, and the Chinese are from Chineseland
I don’t see the problem here
Americanland! Let’s not forget that one.
You know the worst part? The Dutch donut even care.
As long as you don’t call us holland we’re happy
Everytime
It’s not a word, my dude.
Holländare -> Holland
Easy as that
I'm Dutch but not from Holland. There's dozens of us.
And no one from Sweden is going to acknowledge the difference, here Holland = Netherlands
Deutschland, obviously
D….Dutch…DÜTCHNTOWN?
East india.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 hours ago
If you follow the etymology, Dutchland is just Deutschland, which is how you say Germany in German. Of course, it has been like 500 years since it was reasonable to say that the Netherlanders are just anothers group of Germans like the Bavarians or Saxons.
notsosure@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
That is not a reason they are called Dutch though.
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Thank you for disclosing that you used ai