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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Europe: take your pick of randos.

It’s interesting that they went with the English names of some countries (i.e. “Supainu”, “Suweden” and “Porando” could have been “Esupaniya”, “Suberige” and “Porusuka” or similar) but chose native ones for some well-known countries like Germany.

[–] 9point6 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think that one in particular is because Germany and Japan share a surprising amount of history with each other IIRC

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Ukraine got a native name, too!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

In what world in Spain not a famous country?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I expect that is has something to do with the Dutch trade monopoly with Japan. Most countries seem like pronounced as in Dutch, only japanized.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But not the Netherlands itself

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We use Holland to refer to Nederland quite often, even though we aware that that isn't correct

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, because otherwise nobody knows what we're talking about