There is no Guantánamo Bay

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[T-Bone Texan]

Language IS culture.

Control language and you control the culture.

This thread discusses the highjacking of our culture.

So yeah, keep your ancestor’s’ umlauts, but be cognizant of the attack on our culture that this represents!

[PJammers]

English nations call it Germany. Germanic nations call it Deutschland or Duitsland. The French call it Allemagne. Spain Alemania. Italy calls it Germania. Scandinavians call it Tyskland. Poland calls it Niemcy.

[HarborSentry]

Exactly.

And we call Guantanamo “Guantanamo.”

[Hawthorn]

>> Il y ont bien des gens américains qui ont fait l’effort d’apprendre une autre langue <<

Not so many, in my acquaintance. I would say the number in percentage terms is tres peu.

And by the way, have you ever been to New Orleans? The way the local “Yat” speakers Anglicize the city’s French and Spanish street names might have you rolling on the ground with uncontrollable laughter!

(On the other hand, I think the funniest street name in N.O. has gotta be Elysian Fields. Pretty hard to beat that one for a butchering of French!)

[Hawthorn]

>> Poland calls it Niemcy <<

FWIW, the Chinese characters used officially for Germany can be roughly translated as “Virtuous Country” — while Chinese call the USA the “Beautiful Country” and Russia the “Hungry Country.”

Obviously there’s a certain logic in the latter two, but maybe not in the former!

[Ray76]

Anyone who doesn’t like it can turn around and get...

[exDemMom]

I’ve been to New Orleans four times now. And I’ve been to Orléans, as well.

Actually, I love New Orleans. It has a rather European flavor to it.