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FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish ·
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Russian language is as much a part of Ukraine as Ukranian is. You won't see many in the media calling it Kyiv before Ukraine turned nationalist under Poroshenko

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Russian language is as much a part of Ukraine as Ukranian is. You won't see many in the media calling it Kyiv before Ukraine turned nationalist under Poroshenko

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https://www.reuters.com/article/world/ukraine-passes-language-law-irritating-president-elect-and-russia-idUSKCN1S110Y/

Literally the whole media switched spelling around this time.

iRaq and iRan are silly but the “Kyiv” stuff is different.

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      I don’t know why Greece (Hope Wax) is labelled Hope December

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        the La (腊) in Xi La (Greece or Hellas) can mean wax but it also refers to method of food preservation in China called Waxing where meat is dried and cured to have a waxy exterior, this is commonly done in the winter and hence the 12th month in the Chinese Lunar calender (actually usually in January rather than December) is sometimes colloquially called the wax month

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          很有意思,谢谢

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      kosovo

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        I hope that’s real because it’s fucking hilarious 🤣

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          It is.

          Kosovo is 科索沃kē suǒ wò

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            I mean they probably tried to be nice, how else they would have to call it, nato-puppet-ethnically-cleansed-mafia-land or what?

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      B I L L Y T I M E

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      germany
      moral land

      what the fuck

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        Deutschland

        Deutsch

        De

        德dé (meaning moral or virtuous)

        德国déguó

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        These are literal translations of names mostly chosen for sounding at least a little like the country’s name in its own language

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        I assume it’s because it’s like “de” or something i.e. Deutschland

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      They should really fucking change it for Germany. Also Sweden, didn’t they heard about Poltava? And France after what happened after last election. And UK ffs.

      Bulgaria is spot on though, their insurance companies are fucked up.

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      Russia

      White Russia

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        Tbf that’s a literal translation of Belarus. It means ‘white Russia’.

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          We call it that in Norwegian as well

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      Red Wheat sounds like the title of a kickass video game, a fantastic western novel, a decent 80’s action movie and an absolutely horrendous metaphor for menstruation.

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      deleted by creator

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        It’s historical name and the meaning is that old Slavs colour coded geographical directions, white was north.

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      name for sweden sounds like they’re still kinda mad about a very odd war that happened at some point

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