[PLUG-TALK] begging the question

Michael M. Moore michael at writemoore.net
Mon Oct 5 18:01:55 UTC 2009


On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:42 AM, wes <plug at the-wes.com> wrote:
>>
>> And to add more things that English does to confuse foreigners:
>>
>
> We also seem to have a penchant for making up names for other places.
> Germany is really Deutschland, Japan is really Nihon, Spain is really
> España, etc. Do others do this as much as we do?

The English do that to annoy the French.  I think in the U.S./Canada,
we just inherited the penchant along with the language.

(The English do a lot of things that seem expressly designed to annoy
the French.)

Michael M.

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