Not much else to add. Silly foreigners with their weird names. And stop calling our country Holland!kayisking said:
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In their native tongue it's Nederland. or something along those lines. In English its the Netherlands. In Britain in particular we call it Holland. You may think this is completely baseless, but it isn't. Holland is actually an Area in the Netherlands. I'm not sure why the Brits use it to describe the whole country, but I suppose we also call the USA, America. While in fact the USA isn't America, It's just a country within America.
People, plz stop ranting about wether the name of the country is Holland or the Netherlands, the name is the Netherlands, okay, the facts don't care about your logic, it is just the Netherlands.
Would you mind sharing with us a few sources to back up your claim ('The Netherlands' including Belgium and Luxembourg)?Maraveno said:I'm not wrongNimcha said:I'm sorry, but you're just wrong on all accounts. Holland is not a country. The Netherlands is. Belgium is. Eveybody in the world but you seems to know that.Maraveno said:I'm trying to make clear to you that belgium IS a low country a "Neder-land" thus in the international community the area would be referred to as Netherlands, the countries as holland and belgiumNimcha said:Again, I know what the name of my country means. But again, it's just the one country. Belgium has been part of the Republic of the Netherlands in the past, but is not anymore. I don't know how I can make it more clear to you.Maraveno said:you're right somewhat but wrong in your conclusion, you ask an englishman he'll say england, you ask a scot he'll say " no you *** I'm scottish/brittish"Nimcha said:You are actually right. Our country is called The Netherlands. No matter what it actually means, it's just the country. I don't think you'll make many friends in Belgium if you lop them in with the Netherlands.Shirastro said:I always thought that the common name for that region was Benelux....i just found out that Benelux only refers to some sort of economic union between those countries.Maraveno said:because officially THE NETHERLANDS would mean including belgium luxemburg and the northern part of franceSgt. Sykes said:While we're at it, why is the country called Holland somewhere and Netherlands ('low grounds') elsewhere? That's some schizophrenic country
Either way, researching history of words is very interesting. I think I'll look this up.
The Netherlands blatantly means : the low countries
Live and learn i guess
Anyway people should really stop calling it Holland, it's annoying. Ask any Brit what they think about people calling their entire continent just 'England'.
It's not everyone it's those parts that are actually heriditary different
Also : Belgium Belongs to THE NETHERLANDS because they are one of the low countries
The reason why everyone calls Holland ,Holland because of the view of The Netherlands being the low countries
Neder-landen Neder=Lage=Low
Ask any educated belgian on the subject and they'll tell you the same
on any account you *** listen : this area round here is called the netherlands , the country is too for itself but as do the japanese live in NIPON and not in japan
It's the same thing, people consider this Holland due to the contrast I just drew for you now please stop with your nonsensical debate, you're not even reading my posts properly
Wait waa? I'm from Bulgaria and we just call Germany "Gurmaanyia" (how you pronounce it hard to do it anyway, but spoken it's roughly the same), the entire region besides Greece Romania and possibly Hungary has a similar language and everyone can understand much of the other languages, so I'm bewildered why the Serbians would have a different name.Shirastro said:
But yah Montenegro is actually in their language "Cnobec", it also means black mountain but I assume it's Italy who gave everyone its name so yah makes sense.
Germans cal themselves Deutsch, Finns call themselves suomalaiset (I believe), Greeks call themselves Έλληνες (Ellenes), the Japanese call themselves 日本人 (Nihonjin, Nipponjin)(according to Wikipedia), and so on. English has a lot of names for places and people from those places that differ immensely from said places names for themselves. I don't know why this is in most cases--I know "German" comes from the Roman name for the region of present-day Germany, "Germania", but I don't know about any other instance. Come to think of it, I don't know how extensively other languages do this. Anyone?
South Slavic languages might be similar, but they are not the same. It might be Gurmaanyia in Bulgaria, but it's Nemacka in Serbia.Warforger said:
Just like Netherlands is called Holandia in Serbia, and Nizozemska in Croatia (Nizozemska is a literal translation meaning low-lands)
Oh and i don't know where on earth did u dig that "Cnobec" thing about Montenegro.
Montenegro is called Crna Gora (which translated does mean black mountain, that part was right) and it's called like that in all the ex-Yugoslav languages.
Because we're awesome. We just roll like that, you know? We go against all logic - legalized drugs, building under sea level, surely a strange name for our people in English won't hurt either
For real though, it has to do with that crazy medieval language called Diets that was spoken here way way way back, but some one else in this topic probably already explained that.
For real though, it has to do with that crazy medieval language called Diets that was spoken here way way way back, but some one else in this topic probably already explained that.
Perhaps the Dutch/Deutch thing is from an archaic word for the general area, which hangs on in different forms in different languages...Lukeje said:
Exactly. Except replace "We" with "They" and "You" with "We". Oh and "Us" with "Them". Just because I'm not Dutch.kayisking said:
EDIT: Oops. And also replace "Ourselves" with "Themselves".
However I do still call them "The Dutch" since it's become a basic thing to say.
Unfortunatly Chavs are a country wide problem. We have them here too and these are northern chavs we're dealing with... maybe a MOAB or two and a batallion of MLRS vehicles? You southern folk certainly have the money for it lol.SckizoBoy said:
Nope, I'm a dirty Manchester peasent. So I'm more "Eee-Are mate" than "Why-ai like"Zantos said:
Anglo-land (land of Anglo-Saxon Germanic tribesman)ColdStorage said:
Engla-land (Engla = plural (kinda) for Angle in Anglo-Saxon language)
England = Land of Angles.
Granted, it's not as cool as Earth of the Angles, but it's the same basic idea there.
Barsley is just unimportant version of Rotherham, which is just poor-man's version of Sheffield.Zantos said:
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THEJORRRG said:
Yeah but in French Terre is Earth...
Well actually the French word Terre has a metric fuckton of meanings dependant on context, it can also mean mud, my AnglyMuddy friend!, a bit like the whole "what's the definition of a planet?", so their you have it my AnglePlanet friend!
Pluto's all like "I don't know, WTF man?"
LANGUAGES ARE MAD
I never made it or no anybody that did, but it sure annoys me that it's pretty much nonexistent in Texas. It tastes similar to root beer, so I guess it's a similar process. I don't think they use sarsaparilla anymore v: Shoo fly pie now, that's a recipe I can get behind.Dags90 said:
But yeah, I'm pretty sure it happens in just about every language.