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[El_Machinae]

You know what really bugged me when I was talking to my cousins from Poland? The fact that Krakow is pronounced 'Krakov' by the locals.

Why the heck do we learn to misprounounce their word for their city?

Ask any Canadian school kid to read 'Budapest' out loud, and they'll (having heard the word before) read it like it looks on paper. The locals sure as heck don't say it that way.

Whose name is it? Theirs. I think the owners of the name get to determine the pronunciation.

Of course, Toronto then become Terana, but what can we do?

 

[Gladi]

Bright day
Don't worry about it too much, East Europans pronounce Chicago as chi-ck-cage-go (verb)

 

[Quinzy]

well us irish call it She-car-go..

 

[Bozo Erectus]

As a lifelong speaker of Spanglish, this issue no me importa.

 

[skadistic]

Same reason that people from Boston can't say caR and why I'm from Murrlen instead of Maryland. Its all because of regional accents. If we all sounded and pronounced things the same way life would be preaty bland.

 

[Masquerouge]

What about Munchen? Nobody besides German say Munchen.
Or Pekin?

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Maybe this is the thread for this: can somebody help me sort out Holland, Dutch and Danish?

 

[skadistic]

Danish are tasty. Holland is a nation and dutch is when you split the bill on a date.

 

[Masquerouge]

Maybe this is the thread for this: can somebody help me sort out Holland, Dutch and Danish?

Seriously?

Holland is a province of the Netherlands. The most well-known province, granted, annoying Dutch people to no end: it's as if you called the USA "Texas". Note that Deutsch is German for German.
Meanwhile the Danes live quietly in Denmark, making Danish things.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Danish are tasty. Holland is a nation and dutch is when you split the bill on a date.

Seriously?

Holland is a province of the Netherlands. The most well-known province, granted, annoying Dutch people to no end: it's as if you called the USA "Texas". Note that Deutsch is German for German.
Meanwhile the Danes live quietly in Denmark, making Danish things.

Thanks. All this time Ive thought Holland was a country

 

[skadistic]

Seriously?

Holland is a province of the Netherlands. The most well-known province, granted, annoying Dutch people to no end: it's as if you called the USA "Texas". Note that Deutsch is German for German.
Meanwhile the Danes live quietly in Denmark, making Danish things.

So why is it called the "Dutch East Indies"?

 

[Masquerouge]

So why is it called the "Dutch East Indies"?

For the same reason that you have New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey...

 

[skadistic]

Yes but why "Dutch" and not the "Neatherlands" --east indies?

New was called New_________ before New York.

 

[Masquerouge]

Yes but why "Dutch" and not the "Neatherlands" --east indies?

Because Dutch is also the adjective. It would be the English East Indies, not England East Indies, French East Indies, so Dutch East Indies.

New was called New_________ before New York.

By the natives? Or by Dutch colonists, in which case my point still stand?
EDIT: I completely missed your joke, didn't I?

 

[Bozo Erectus]

They should be called 'Netherese' not Dutch.

 

[Masquerouge]

They should be called 'Netherese' not Dutch.

I'll second that motion if you bring it to the UN.
Netherlanders would be more correct, but Netherese could be, like, the cool way of saying Netherlanders.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Netherlanders isnt bad. Ok, see you at the UN bright and early Monday morning.

 

[skadistic]

Because Dutch is also the adjective. It would be the English East Indies, not England East Indies, French East Indies, so Dutch East Indies.



By the natives? Or by Dutch colonists, in which case my point still stand?
EDIT: I completely missed your joke, didn't I?

New was called New_________ before New York.

Should have said
New York was called New_________ before New York?
And the answer is Amsterdam

 

[Masquerouge]

Netherlanders isnt bad. Ok, see you at the UN bright and early Monday morning.

Move over, uninteresting Middle-East situation. We got some serious defecation to discuss!

 

[Masquerouge]

New was called New_________ before New York.

Should have said
New York was called New_________ before New York?
And the answer is Amsterdam

Yeah, that's why I brought the Dutch colonists