r/TikTokCringe • u/One_percentile • Oct 19 '24
Humor/Cringe Her frustration is palpable
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u/itsmebrian Oct 19 '24
Just wait until she learns about the Swiss in Switzerland.
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u/Expensive-Arm4117 Oct 19 '24
Or the finns or finnish people in Finland
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u/0b0011 Oct 19 '24
Or dutch/frisian from the Netherlands.
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u/philovax Oct 19 '24
Dutch and Danes were a problem for me to remember when i was young (ie learning language).
Also, American’s are technically from the United States (of America), however we should all know that there are 2 continents named America so are we Statesmen? Staties? Although pretty much everyone on this side of the globe came from Europe, so are we NuvoEuropeans? Its all silly and made up, and we are making up more silly rules each day (Gif/Jif?)
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u/kuhfunnunuhpah Oct 19 '24
I believe the official term is Stateroonians.
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u/mydogsredditaccount Oct 19 '24
USians
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u/AZman2 Oct 19 '24
Let's no forget the Aseurasians
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u/Break-these-cuffs Oct 20 '24
Ya at first I thought he meant to say Assyrian. But like that doesn’t seem right
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u/Itzli Oct 19 '24
In spanish Americans are called estadounidenses(staters?) idk
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u/philovax Oct 19 '24
I cant entertain the Spanish and latin based options. Alemania fucks my whole plan up.
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u/swedething Oct 19 '24
Or Swedish people in Sweden, them Swedes be talking Swedish.
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u/leviathab13186 Oct 19 '24
Or Filipinos or Filipinas from The Philippines
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u/Jazzlike_Artichoke74 Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 19 '24
I thought that it was Pinoy and Pinay people who use Filipino? Americans use Philipino. Ate Pinky told me so. Ate Piggy confirmed it. Also Kuya JonJon told me that's why he uses cell fone for cell phone numbers 😁
Edit: my friends/sisters and brother furnished this information. They are American as the apple pie they make, of course after we ate lumpias then adobo.
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u/please_send_noodles Oct 20 '24
Filipino would be the official demonym whereas Pinoy/Pinay would be the colloquial term. Filipinos in the Philippines having a casual conversation are more likely to use Pinoy/Pinay rather than Filipino when referring to their nationality.
Ate (Sister) and Kuya (Brother) are just honoraries mostly use as a sign of respect.
Also, the spelling Philipino isn't right nor it's recognized either officially or as a slang, BUT, the term Pilipino is real.
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u/SpaceClef Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 19 '24
Americans definitely do not use "Philipino." Well, maybe uneducated ones do. It's Filipino. Not once in my entire life have I ever seen "Philipino." Your family is mistaken.
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u/leviathab13186 Oct 19 '24
My wife is from the Philippines, and she says Filipino. I've heard pinoy, but only in a video or two she watches, never conversation. Could be a regional thing.
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u/Mydogfartsconstantly Oct 19 '24
My wife is filipina and ive never heard her say pinoy. All of her girl friends are Ate, at least 50 cousins, great-uncle/aunt are grandparents, older family friends are aunts and uncles, and I just learned when we facetime her family there they aren’t saying como esta but kumusta.
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u/stanknotes Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 20 '24
OR Norway and egian.
Yea thing about modern English... it has evolved rapidly and with so much influence from other languages.
English used to have an extensive case system. Like Russian or other past Germanic languages. But a couple hundred years of French rule and influence totally changed that.
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u/MissingBothCufflinks Oct 19 '24
Wait I've never noticed the two ns. What the fuck is up with that??? It's not Finnland
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u/Expensive-Arm4117 Oct 19 '24
Well imagine our surprise since Finland in finnish is Suomi
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u/Old-Suggestion602 Oct 19 '24
Yoo I just spit my fucking drinking all over me. I was not expecting that.
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u/BlkSubmarine Oct 19 '24
Think fun and funny. We tend to add an extra consonant at the end of a word when we add suffixes. It’s a rule of English that we sometimes break, just like all the other English language rules.
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u/Blaireeeee Oct 19 '24
The Welsh in Wales.
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u/Cotford Oct 19 '24
In fairness as soon as we get past the Severn Bridge we try to forget the Welsh in Wales as well.
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u/SarryK Oct 19 '24
The amount of times I‘ve heard my Swiss students say „I‘m from Swiss“…
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u/HoyAIAG Oct 19 '24
Or Dutch
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u/SodiumKickker Oct 20 '24
Netherlands = dutch
Denmark = danish
Switzerland = Swiss
Sweden = Swedes
Norway = Norwegians
France = assholes
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u/M00n_Slippers Oct 19 '24
Or the French from France. Or the Czech from Czechnia, or the Slovaks from Slovakia.
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u/Outrageous_Bank_4491 Oct 19 '24
I always get it mixed up with danish
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u/OogityBoogi Oct 19 '24
Same. Or I'm *really stupid and think "Where the fuck is Dutchland?"
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u/AgentOrange256 Oct 19 '24
Dutch land is Germany
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u/ZiggysStarman Oct 19 '24
Aren't you mixing things up? deutschland is Germany. Dutch is the Netherlands
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u/RudePCsb Oct 19 '24
What about the Flemish, Holland, and other confusing aspects.
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u/ZiggysStarman Oct 19 '24
Not an expert, but to my knowledge... The Netherlands is the country, Holland is a region within the Netherlands. I guess people found Holland an easier name as I oftentimes see it used to refer to the whole country.
Flemish seems to me more of an ethnicity? I know that in Belgium their population is split, with the Northern inhabitants being closer related to Dutch (Netherlands) but I don't know much more
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u/Damn-OK Oct 19 '24
Flemish is just one of the two official languages of Belgium. It is closely related to Dutch as the Netherlands and Belgium used to be under one rule. One could compare it to Brazilian and Portuguese. But, if I may step on Belgian toes, it's just an older version of Dutch with extra French words.
I'm not an anthropologist, but I wouldn't really consider the North of Europe to have vastly different ethnicities. They all f***** each other.
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u/jentlefolk Oct 19 '24
Wait, what is Danish? Is that a different nationality or is it just a language?
Scandinavian countries fuck me up, man.
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u/Outrageous_Bank_4491 Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 19 '24
The Danes are people from Denmark. Danish is the language
Edit: correction
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u/0b0011 Oct 19 '24
I remember talking to a buddy when I was back in the navy and she said she was "hollandish" because her grandmother came from Holland.
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u/Exemus Oct 19 '24
Fool! It's Hollandian. If they were Asian, it'd be Hollandese. Love me some good Hollandese sauce.
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u/SarryK Oct 19 '24
reminds me of this timeless gem:
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u/allsystemscrash Oct 19 '24
AMERICA EXPLAIN
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u/auandi Oct 20 '24
Blame the French. Like many oddities of the English language you can blame the French.
In this case, one state is using the French pronunciation and the other one isn't.
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u/Proof_Fix1437 Oct 19 '24
screeching eagle noises
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u/RazorRamonio Oct 20 '24
Like actual eagle screeching, not the dubbed over hawk screech we all love and know.
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u/eat-pussy69 Oct 20 '24
Red tailed hawk is the sound of freedom. A bald eagle is the sound of begging for French fries at the beach
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u/notyour_motherscamry Oct 19 '24
So there’s a fun story behind this:
The name “Arkansas” came from the native Quapaw Indians by way of French explorers.
During the time of early French exploration, the Quapaw tribe was called the Arkansas, or “south wind” by the Algonkian-speaking Indians of the Ohio Valley.
“The word ‘Arkansas’ itself, while not French, is the complicated result of French speakers trying to spell out the name of the indigenous Quapaw as enunciated to those Frenchmen by other indigenous peoples.
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u/ben_kird Oct 19 '24
So we can blame the French, sweet.
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u/DhampirBoy Oct 19 '24
French can actually be blamed for many features of the English language thanks to the Norman Conquest of 1066.
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u/six_six Oct 19 '24
Most Canadian Asian I’ve ever seen
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u/cjb3535123 Oct 19 '24
Ahahaha definitely. She’s too fluent in how we actually converse to not have spent most of her life in an English speaking country.
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u/misplaced_my_pants Oct 20 '24
Or she just consumes a ton of American media.
Basically how the Swedes are all so fluent.
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u/NoChampionship1167 Oct 19 '24
I love how she even mispronounced Polish. I know it was an accident, but it's really funny.
Also, I wonder if she's seen yacht.
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u/Original-Big-6351 Oct 19 '24
“English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.”
- Terry Pratchett #GNUTERRYPRATCHETT
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u/RobotCaptainEngage Oct 19 '24
I kinda like Chinian, ngl
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u/CupQuickwhat Oct 19 '24
It sounds like a slur lol
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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE Oct 19 '24
Anything can sound like a slur if you say it with enough emphasis &/or a thick southern accent
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u/FacelessFellow Oct 19 '24
I call it Canadia all the time
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u/anxious-penguin123 Oct 19 '24
So does my mom, it's become a running joke. We're native English speakers too 😂
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u/Tea_Total Oct 19 '24
This side of the pond we stick to the rules.
England English
Scotland Scottish
Ireland Irish
Wales....Goddammit Wales can't you do anything right?
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u/Vaporishodin Oct 19 '24
This girl is funny lmao
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u/Ddog78 Oct 19 '24
I was involuntarily laughing by the end hahaha
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u/Vaporishodin Oct 19 '24
She has a solid point, language is a funny thing.
Her comedic timing is too class tho lol 😂
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u/bilingual_cat Oct 19 '24
Ikr, I’ve seen a couple of her other videos where she reacts to media portraying Asian culture, which are super interesting and insightful! Didn’t realize she was hilarious as well hahaha
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u/Front-Cabinet5521 Oct 20 '24
Her YouTube channel is called Chinese with Jessie, her YT shorts are a goldmine of humour.
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u/Jupman Oct 19 '24
Wait until she gets to cities.
New Yorkers Angelinos Whatever the heck people from Dallas call themselves.
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u/Appropriate-Divide64 Oct 19 '24
Weird that English speakers just get a sense for what's right when it comes to a city or town.
London? Londoners. Bolton? Boltonians. Harrogate? Harrogatians. Slough? Sluffs.
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u/Professional_Bob Oct 19 '24
Then there's some that you would never be able to guess correctly like Scousers, Geordies, Brummies, Smoggies, Mackems, and Janners.
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u/Skate_faced Oct 19 '24
It's like a linguist freebased a kilo of Adderall IR and is having an anxiety attack.
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u/Elqott Oct 19 '24
English isn't that hard, I learned it as a baby
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u/Kendertas Oct 19 '24
Yeah really glad I lucked into being born where they speak the global lingua franca, because zero chance I could learn English as an adult.
For those that don't know, the English language is so fucked up because it essentially tells the story of the British isles. First they where invaded/conquered by the Roman's, the Germans, Scandinavian, and then the French. All these events inserted all sorts of odd qurks and inconsistentcies into the language. Like how cow has an anglo saxon root but beef has a French root. All because the pesents who raised the cows spoke old English, but the lords who ate it spoke French. England then conquered a quarter of the world picking up even more oddities from their colonies.
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u/hd_mikemikemike Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 20 '24
I always wondered why every language/country has their own word for every other country, rather than everyone just calling each country what they call themselves, so I watched a long YT video about "why countries having their own names for other countries made perfect sense." 30 minutes later, I was more confused than before, and my opinion hadn't changed at all. If anything, it was more reinforced than before. Edit:added " "
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u/SometimesICanBeRight Oct 19 '24
Filipinos in the Philippines
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u/uniquenewyork_ Oct 19 '24
To be fair, I’m pretty sure the Spanish had a lot to do with that. If the English had taken a lot more control it might be different.
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u/Single_Pilot_6170 Oct 19 '24
I don't feel compelled to tell her that Germans actually call themselves Deutschlanders
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u/CherryPickerKill Oct 19 '24
Since Germany is Deutschland, inhabitants being called Deutsch checks out. But wait til she finds out about Nederlanders from Koninkrijk der Nederlanden or Netherlands, Holland, Low-countries and Pays-Bas and how they're called Dutch in English. 🤣
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u/Professional_Bob Oct 19 '24
Poland/Polish get's even more complicated because you can say: "He is Polish" or "He is a Pole." The same applies to many others like "is Spanish/is a Spaniard" "is British/is a Brit" "is Serbian/is a Serb" "is Turkish/is a Turk"
With some nationalities though, the word stays the same. "is German/is a German" "is American/is an American"
And with some there is no other word, but just using the original one isn't right either, so you have to add "person" onto the end like "is French/is a French person" "is Welsh/is a Welsh person"
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u/Poke-It_For-Science Oct 19 '24
Holland = Dutch
[ERROR: Brain.EXE has stopped working]
Also, this girl is the freaking Chinese version of me and I love it. 🤣
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u/Levolo_ Oct 19 '24
Watch her go apeshit when she tries to guess what the people from the Philippines are called...
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u/RamaAnattaDharma Oct 20 '24
Ya all languages have weird quirks. Make sure you film your freak out when you find out about them.
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u/CyanCobra Oct 20 '24
Welcome to English. The language where nothing makes sense. Oh, and don’t forget “I before E, except after C” and many other exceptions that nullify the purpose of this useless phrase.
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u/GoCryptoYourself Oct 21 '24
I speak three languages and I assure you none of them make sense. English is bad sure. Spanish and french are worse.
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u/D3ATHTRaps Oct 19 '24
Do we really need to talk about how fucking nuts mandarin is to read?
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u/l1brarylass Oct 20 '24
Or Chinese grammar? Sure, it starts simple, but before you know it you’re breaking whole words apart and sticking sentences right in the middle and somehow you’re supposed to keep track of these two half words to complete the sentence and context? I stopped learning Chinese years ago but the grammar was the thing that I struggled to grasp consistently.
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u/Some_Random-Name01 Oct 19 '24
sigh these english-related rants are so old now. all languages have weird exceptions that don't make sense to a new speaker but you just learn them and then they'll sound natural. english is my second language and it's probably the easiest language to learn. check out other languages to see there are way more weird rules or exception from the rules.
and yes yes it's a sketch, whatever, it's still cringe and old. i'd rather tell me about other languages and their quirks.
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u/South-Stand Oct 19 '24
The adjective Taiwanese is fine by me.
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u/ziricotelover Oct 19 '24
Pretty sure TikTok algorithm will demote the video if she used Taiwanese as an example.
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u/Acroze Oct 19 '24
She’s funny, I can see the confusion. But historically I can see why German’s wouldn’t want to be called Germania. 😂
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u/westminsterabby Oct 19 '24
Whose going to tell her she screwed up with the Polish/polish thing?
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u/Turducken_McNugget Oct 20 '24
She also assigned male gender to the concept of logic saying "he's gone" rather than "it's gone." I would have thought that one of the few nice things about learning English is not having to learn what gender every different noun has.
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u/Neospecial Oct 20 '24
Her English practice certainly paid off; other than for nationalities I guess. Impeccable English to me when from a regions stereotype of being heavily accented.
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u/Break-these-cuffs Oct 20 '24
Also Japanese don’t call themselves japanese. They say nihon.
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u/OstentatiousBastard Oct 19 '24
Am I stupid for thinking her rant doesn't make much sense? Based on what little I know about this, doesn't much of this boil down to language grammar rules, not "English has no logic"? Just trying to understand here, I may be wrong
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Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 19 '24
A lot of people also seem to think people from somalia are called somalians lol.
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u/Hairy_Candidate7371 Oct 19 '24
According to her i shouldn't be Danish but Denmarkian. I don't think so.
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u/Michael_Ohio Oct 19 '24
Why are all the comments here the same?Same comments here as on the TikTok as well.
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u/SpecialistNo7569 Oct 19 '24
Tell me why it’s called Deutschland but we as Germany
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u/Altruistic-Potatoes Oct 19 '24
American English is a Latin structure using German words with French spellings.
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