zlatiah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days ago"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronymmessage-squaremessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1153arrow-down110
arrow-up1143arrow-down1message-square"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronymzlatiah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square59fedilink
minus-squarespankinspinach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoI learned not that long ago the Japanese refer to Japan as Nippon, and that stuck with me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Japan
minus-squaretigeruppercut@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 hours agoThey usually say Nihon instead of Nippon. Some English used to use words derived from nippon as well but they mostly dropped out of the language not too long after WWII, prob bc nip is an old slur for Japanese people. There’s an ee cummings poem that refers to a piece of “nipponized steel”. https://allpoetry.com/poem/13587560-plato-told-by-e.e.-cummings
Japan? AnimeLand
I learned not that long ago the Japanese refer to Japan as Nippon, and that stuck with me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Japan
They usually say Nihon instead of Nippon.
Some English used to use words derived from nippon as well but they mostly dropped out of the language not too long after WWII, prob bc nip is an old slur for Japanese people. There’s an ee cummings poem that refers to a piece of “nipponized steel”.
https://allpoetry.com/poem/13587560-plato-told-by-e.e.-cummings