- QuentinCallaghan ( @QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz ) English15•29 days ago
Conversely, here’s European countries in Finnish, albeit not by using English approximation.
- ystael ( @ystael@beehaw.org ) 12•28 days ago
Isobritannia? Is that regular Britannia with the hydroxyl group attached in the middle instead of the end?
- QuentinCallaghan ( @QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz ) English3•27 days ago
It’s ISO standardized Britannia.
- hades ( @hades@lemm.ee ) 15•29 days ago
They call Japan itself “Nihon”, so what do they know… /s
- Kaity ( @Kyatto@leminal.space ) English14•28 days ago
well… not really, it’s the romaji spelling of them.
- 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 ( @maniel@sopuli.xyz ) 1•26 days ago
of course, how else would non Japanese speaking people read it? Also the country names are on the easier side of pronunciation, so not much is lost when using romanji, it’s not like in other SEA languages where tones are lost in Latin spelling
- AllNewTypeFace ( @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ) 13•29 days ago
Europe: take your pick of randos.
It’s interesting that they went with the English names of some countries (i.e. “Supainu”, “Suweden” and “Porando” could have been “Esupaniya”, “Suberige” and “Porusuka” or similar) but chose native ones for some well-known countries like Germany.
- rockerface 🇺🇦 ( @rockerface@lemm.ee ) 2•28 days ago
Ukraine got a native name, too!
- Akasazh ( @Akasazh@feddit.nl ) 2•28 days ago
I expect that is has something to do with the Dutch trade monopoly with Japan. Most countries seem like pronounced as in Dutch, only japanized.
- EddoWagt ( @EddoWagt@feddit.nl ) 3•28 days ago
But not the Netherlands itself
- Akasazh ( @Akasazh@feddit.nl ) 1•28 days ago
We use Holland to refer to Nederland quite often, even though we aware that that isn’t correct
- EddoWagt ( @EddoWagt@feddit.nl ) 1•28 days ago
Yeah, because otherwise nobody knows what we’re talking about
- ImplyingImplications ( @ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ) 9•29 days ago
That’s the English approximation of Japanese
- Diabolo96 ( @Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 7•29 days ago
The igirisu and faransu arc was crazy!
- Zwiebel ( @Zwiebel@feddit.org ) English4•29 days ago
Germany when no rando 😢
- observantTrapezium ( @observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca ) 2•28 days ago
Rumania and Makedonia probability the closest to the country’s native name.
- 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 ( @maniel@sopuli.xyz ) English2•29 days ago
this and Burajiru or Betonamu:D
- Ton the Supermassive ( @ton618@lemm.ee ) 1•28 days ago
Did they forget to name Slovakia? edit: ok wtf I swear to god there was “Slovakia” yesterday night…
- hades ( @hades@lemm.ee ) 2•29 days ago
Surobakia (right next to Cheko)