Learning Japanese

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I constantly mix up sore and sono. 😮‍💨

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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The US still looking weird by calling Germany “Germany.”

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  • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    English speakers call Deutschland Germany, don’t give us all the credit here. And it’s called that cause the UK hated keeping track of what y’all were calling yourselves, so they chose bigotry instead (a common theme for England). The rest of us usually don’t know the history and just have a word with no context as to why it is that way.

    For those Americans who don’t understand, calling it Germany is like calling First Nation land “Indialand” because “how can anyone keep track of what they call it? It’s always changing!”

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And what about the Romance languages. They call Germany “Land of the Alemanni”, they called an entire country after a single Germanic tribe that lived near the French/Italian border. It’s like calling the entire country of the Netherlands Amsterdam.

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    • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s like calling the entire country of the Netherlands Holland. Holland(ia?) is part of the Netherlands which gave the name of the country in a bunch of languages.

      This is weird, by the way, I just wrote about the exact same thing not too long ago.

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  • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tbf a good chunk of Europe calls it “land of people that can’t speak” basically

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    • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’re clearly thinking of the Dutch.

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    • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nemecko
      Nemý

      Never realized that.

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    • agavaa@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Cause they can’t!1!

      But for real, for those who are curious: the border between Germany and Poland is effectively the border between western and eastern Europe. So to Slav people Germans lived right over there, and yet spoke something incomprehensible; so we called them “mute” (in Poland at least). If I can’t understand you you are mute to me, basically. And the word for “Germans” is the same as for “Germany”, so we call the country itself mutes 😅

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  • missingno@fedia.io ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    About as weird as calling Nihon "Japan".

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not any weirder than any other English speaking country.

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    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or any country really. I’d be curious to see if a chart of languages ranked on how many countries’ endonyms are also the same word in that language. But there’s definitely no language that doesn’t have exonyms.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endonym_and_exonym

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  • ceiphas@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Du meinst Deutschland.

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  • Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    TYSKLAND

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The weirdest ones are the Finns, calling Germany Saksa.
    I’m German and I feel more at home when I’m in Finland than in Sachsen.

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    • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Finnish Saksa is a reference to the Saxon tribe from Old Saxon in Northern Germany, not the current Sachsen.

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    • First_Thunder@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What about the Portuguese! ALEMANHA for Germany

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  m.youtube.com/watch?v=nhD9gyRSz0g

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