(08-12-2022, 12:16 AM)Norgarth Wrote:
That's cool but the United States doesn't have an official language. Some of our Founding Fathers called the country États Unis too. It maybe makes more sense to call nations by their native name than countries (which may not be nations).
But I can tell the person who wrote this is a dipshit American because those are the only people who cares about fighting other people's culture wars. He doesn't even know the difference between Nihon and Nippon. But 日本人 also use "Japan". And I watched an anime called "Zipang". Gosh, we have lots of examples of this. The name "Navajo" means something like "field adjoining an arroyo" in a Puebloan language, but they call themselves "Diné"... and also Navajo. The word "Germania" is thousands of years older than "Deutchland" -- "Diet" just meant people in a general sense for a long time in German, before it mutated to "Deutch". But rest assured that even if you try to pronounce a name of a people in their native language, you will not get the accent right anyway, and your language might even lack the phonemes. English is missing the moraic timing to get "Nihon" completely right.
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