To add insult to injury, what they call it, Deutschland, sounds like what we should call Netherlands

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[–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The Dutch centuries ago called their language Diets/Duuts/Duits which means something like Germanic.

No, it means something like "people" or "of the people".

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