Random Rants LIII: F My Life

[Borachio]

All that is true.

But what do you think someone means when they say Holland, incorrectly? And why does it make you angry annoyed?

 

[Mango Elephant]

Oh, my god. Who cares?

So long as you can communicate getting pissed over semantics is ridiculous.

 

[JohannaK]

Oh I love discussing semantics.

I also find annoying that my Linguistics professor seems incapable of correctly spelling anything or mixing Catalan with Spanish.

 

[Mango Elephant]

Well, discussing it is one thing. Getting pissed over people calling the country "Holland" is just silly.

 

[Arakhor]

People calling the UK 'England' annoys me too, especially fi they then refer to the 'Queen of England', who died in 1601.

 

[salty mud]

Oh, my god. Who cares?

So long as you can communicate getting pissed over semantics is ridiculous.

From now on we'll just refer to the USA as California.

Same difference.

 

[Borachio]

La Reine d'Angleterre, eh?

The French nearly always refer to England rather than Great Britain, in informal talk, I found. Very rarely: Le Royaume Uni.

That's when they're being polite, that is. Which isn't often.

 

[salty mud]

As long as they know their place under England's boot.

 

[gay_Aleks]

The boot's located a bit down and right, so I guess you'll have some troubles.

 

[Mango Elephant]

From now on we'll just refer to the USA as California.

Same difference.

That would be fine if literally any culture in the world referred to the USA as California.

Do I get bent out of shape when Europeans call me a Yankee? Of course not, because in Europe Yankee is a much broader term than it is here.

There are differences in language that people need to learn to accept or risk being pissed off a lot.

 

[GamezRule]

Yankee is actually a decent example, because within the United States it only refers to people from the northeast.

 

[madviking]

no refers to people who eat pie for breakfast

 

[Takhisis]

It really annoys me when people call The Netherlands "Holland".

Should we change the name of the hollandaise sauce 'Nederlandaise'?

Well, Eire and Ireland are exactly the same thing, just in different languages.

Nooo, no, no, no, no, no.

no refers to people who eat pie for breakfast

I thought it was meant to mean a patriot, as opposed to the traitor states?

 

[madviking]

I thought it was meant to mean a patriot, as opposed to the traitor states?

"To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast."

e.b. white

 

[Takhisis]

You yankin' my chain?

 

[sophie]

Well, discussing it is one thing. Getting pissed over people calling the country "Holland" is just silly.

Are you going to see the New York vs Ghana match on Monday?

 

[Takhisis]

Getting pissed over people calling the country "Holland" may be just silly, but getting people pissed over calling the country 'Holland' is fun.

 

[Mango Elephant]

Are you going to see the New York vs Ghana match on Monday?

I know you're trying to prove a point but I'd be fine with people referring to the United States as New York.

 

[Takhisis]

Let's have a laugh and see who gets the new thread…

Are you going to see the New York vs Ghana match on Monday?

I know you're trying to prove a point but I'd be fine with people referring to the United States as New York.

It's all we ever see of you lot on the telly anyway.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Are you going to see the New York vs Ghana match on Monday?

I wouldn't find it a really big deal if New York is commonly used to refer to the US.