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re: Why don't we call Copa America, "America Cup"
Posted on 5/24/16 at 4:12 pm to BleedPurpleGold
Posted on 5/24/16 at 4:12 pm to BleedPurpleGold
Mother frickers ate everything from that meeting. Bastards
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Posted on 5/24/16 at 4:15 pm to StraightCashHomey21
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Cologne
Dunno how we got that from Köln
From French.
It's Colonia in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 4:21 pm to Dandy Lion
But English and German actually have lots of similarities in the origins of the languages.
Köln sounds exactly how it looks, short and simple.
Köln sounds exactly how it looks, short and simple.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 4:27 pm to StraightCashHomey21
The weird onamonapia sort of thing (I know it's not technically an onamonapia) with foreign cities always fascinated me. Like why call Roma, Rome? It's not like it's harder for the English to pronounce it Roma. Language is fascinating.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 8:00 pm to StraightCashHomey21
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But English and German actually have lots of similarities in the origins of the languages.
English is a Germanic language with 80% of its words from Norman French or Latin. Or something.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 8:18 pm to crazy4lsu
Arkansas or Ar-Kansas?
Posted on 5/24/16 at 8:47 pm to pvilleguru
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I've thought the same thing about why we change the name of some foreign cities, etc.
This is my thought as well. Why do we say Costa Rica but also say Ivory Coast when they prefer th French version? Why do we say Bayern Munich instead of Bayern Munchen of Bavaria Munich?
This post was edited on 5/24/16 at 8:49 pm
Posted on 5/24/16 at 8:56 pm to DestrehanTiger
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Costa Rica but also say Ivory Coast
Is this true? I´ve never heard Costa Rica called that.
Obviously, the European languages each had their name for each country in their language, and the Americas, took on the Spanish names (the vast majority).
Posted on 5/24/16 at 8:57 pm to cheesesteak501
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the real America.
Their first European language was Spanish.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 9:15 pm to Dandy Lion
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Costa Rica but also say Ivory Coast
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Is this true? I´ve never heard Costa Rica called that.
It's not. He was saying we say "Costa Rica" which is Spanish while we translate "Côte d'Ivoire" to "Ivory Coast."
Posted on 5/24/16 at 9:20 pm to GeauxColonels
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"Côte d'Ivoire"
I thought this is now it´s multilingual name since about three years or so ago.....
Posted on 5/24/16 at 9:23 pm to Dandy Lion
I still hear everyone say Ivory Coast.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 9:26 pm to pvilleguru
Drogba´s going to get in their face....Deezgrace it is......
Posted on 5/24/16 at 9:47 pm to BleedPurpleGold
Because different people speak and spell differently and in a less connected world differences in names that may not have even been intentional become established. From that point languages themselves drift, we don't speak or spell like we did even a couple of centuries ago, its easy to see how something like Roma could become Rome.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 9:59 pm to Cocotheape
Ok. But this is 2016, not 1492. It's an easy enough change.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 10:02 pm to pvilleguru
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Ok. But this is 2016, not 1492. It's an easy enough change.
His name is Coco the Ape, give him a break....
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