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I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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To add insult to injury, what they call it, Deutschland, sounds like what we should call Netherlands

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[–] 1 point 10 months ago

Yeah true, then it works.

Endonyms often turn out to derive from "people" in some language or other, but exonyms could come from anything like "the people on the other side of the hill/river/swamp" or "the rich people" or "the people who herd sheep" or "the people who really like goat's milk". There's an inherent asymmetry between naming the one group of "us" and all the groups of people who are not "us"!

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