Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 months agoI felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germanymessage-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareI felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in GermanyGrandwolf319@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoWait till you find out that Germans have different words for all the other things we have words for, too! Seriously though, the names of countries are just words. There’s no reason to expect them to be the same in different languages.
minus-squareOZ1SEJ @discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoI think it’s so funny that almost all languages have some variation of the name “Hungary”, except in Hungarian, where it’s called “Magyarország”.
Wait till you find out that Germans have different words for all the other things we have words for, too!
Seriously though, the names of countries are just words. There’s no reason to expect them to be the same in different languages.
I think it’s so funny that almost all languages have some variation of the name “Hungary”, except in Hungarian, where it’s called “Magyarország”.