Spyke
feddit.de

My wisdom:

  • "The United States of America" is not a name but a description
    • It's a bad description since there's multiple unions of states in america
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Klearreply
lemmy.world

Tell that to Austria - Österreich. That means "Eastern realm", since there are no countries more to the East of anything than them. Or hell, Iceland. And Niger is named after the river Niger, which might come from ger-n-ger meaning "river of rivers", so that's another wonderfully unambiguous name.

I'm sure there are other great examples.

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onionreply
feddit.de

Deutschland (Germany) means "land of the people" :D

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Klearreply
lemmy.world

Meanwhile Czech name for Germans is "Němci", which means "Those who can't speak", as compared to Slavs (Slovani) which is "Those who can speak".

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lemmy.world

Åland (a region of Finland) means "land of rivers". The are no rivers there

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When you have a dream and a corrupt cartographer

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CptEnderreply
lemmy.world

It's funny because our neighbor is also literally called United States, Estados Unidos Mexicanos.

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lemmy.world

From 1968 Brazil is not United States anymore, we are a Federative Republic.

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onionreply
feddit.de

Isn't a federation a union of states?

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I'm talking about the name, we were "United states of Brazil" from our republic until 1968, after that the name changed to "Federation republic of Brazil". I'm dont know a lot about how powerful states were back then, so what changed, but today states in Brazil have a little fraction of the independence that US states have.

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there's no such thing as a pacific or atlantic ocean, only the californian ocean and the floridian ocean

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lemmy.sdf.org

Hate hate hate that there’s no one cute unambiguous unabbreviated name for the United States of America:

  • United States: welcome to the large club of other United States
  • America: just like the rest of the Western Hemisphere
  • oh btw United and States or literally mutually exclusive adjectives: United means together; States means not together
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samus12345reply
lemmy.world

No other country has "America" in the name, so "America" works. What other country could it possibly be?

United means together; States means not together

Hence "E pluribus unum."

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lemmy.world

Honestly? If we allow any other territory or country into the union, I personally feel we should rename to The United States of Humanity. The end goal of the US is a Diplomatic victory, since we already have claimed Economic Victory.

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lemmy.world

It's more likely to be called the United Christian Kingdom, which will be shortened unironically to the UK by the idiots that live here

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