The US still looking weird by calling Germany “Germany.”
Tbf a good chunk of Europe calls it “land of people that can’t speak” basically
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 😅
For fun with words:
- Niemcy - polish for Germans
- Niemcy - polish for Germany
- Niemy - polish for mute
- Jadę do Niemiec - “I am riding to Germany”
- Jadę z niemcami - “I am riding with germans”
- Jadę z niemcem - “I am riding with a german”
- Jadę z Niemczech - “I am riding from Germany”
- Jadę z niemym - “I am riding with a mute”
I wonder how confusing these are for people not speaking polish xD
And what about the Romance languages. They call Germany “Land of the Alemanni”, they called an entire country full of different tribes after a single Germanic tribe that lived near the French/Italian border. It’s like calling the entire country of the Netherlands Amsterdam.
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.
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!”
Why put that on the US? We just carried on calling it what the English did.
To spur discussion, mostly
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Ok but then what about are, ano, aitsu?
This, that, tentacle monster.
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Yes but English has weird words so it’s the worst language on Earth.
Signed by those that are likely reading at a third grade level.
Edit: me me word good
