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I know what you're doing for thanksgiving

Dan Neely4-Nov-12 17:04

4-Nov-12 17:04

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Re: I know what you're doing for thanksgiving

Dalek Dave4-Nov-12 21:32

Dalek Dave

4-Nov-12 21:32

As an Englishman, my understanding of Thanksgiving is that you have a dinner to remember the intolerant religious puritans who came to America because they were so unpopular at home, and who would have starved had it not been for the charity of the indigenous peoples giving them turkey to eat, and who, by way of thanks, they killed and stole their land.

Is that right?

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Re: I know what you're doing for thanksgiving

Sentenryu4-Nov-12 23:21

Sentenryu

4-Nov-12 23:21

Wow, so we must start a thanksgiving day here on brazil to! (btw, why the elephant is my country name spelled with z on english?)

I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)

Re: I know what you're doing for thanksgiving

peterchen5-Nov-12 0:08

peterchen

5-Nov-12 0:08

Because they'd pronounce you "Bresl" otherwise.

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Re: I know what you're doing for thanksgiving

Sentenryu5-Nov-12 0:42

Sentenryu

5-Nov-12 0:42

well, that's a better reason than for most of the different country names...

(as an example, "Germany" here is spelled "Alemanha" instead of the expected "Germania" just because it sounded nicer for whoever translated that name)

I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)

Re: I know what you're doing for thanksgiving

BobJanova5-Nov-12 1:33

BobJanova

5-Nov-12 1:33

'Brazil' is a phonetic writing down of what your country name sounds like in English.

Germany is an interesting one. There's three entirely different names which aren't linguistically related: Germany, which I think comes from the Roman name for the province (Germania); Deutschland, which comes from what the people call themselves (confusingly, this is the same as the English 'Dutch' which applies to NL); and Allemagne/Alemanha/etc which I'm not sure where it comes from.

Re: I know what you're doing for thanksgiving

Dalek Dave5-Nov-12 1:50

Dalek Dave

5-Nov-12 1:50

Actually, the term Lingua Franca is from the Roman period after the Goths sacked Rome.
It meant Language of the Franks.

The Franks were German.

So the Germania you speak of was much larger than modern Germany, it composed of all areas to the East of the Rhine plus Poland, Switzerland, parts of France, Italy and what was to become Belgium.
(Remembering that Belgium was invented by the British and named after the British tribe, the Belgii).

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Re: I know what you're doing for thanksgiving

Sentenryu5-Nov-12 2:14

Sentenryu

5-Nov-12 2:14

so you're saying that basically Germania is what hitler thought the country was, and Germany refers to what it actually is? Smile | :)

on a serious matter, that still confuses me, that little language differences that doesn't seem logical at first look... even if the lounge is making me think in english more and more...

I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)

Re: I know what you're doing for thanksgiving

Johann van der Smut5-Nov-12 2:15

Johann van der Smut

5-Nov-12 2:15