Tuearts right boot
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Some twats justifying their wages in the various government departments, usually in an windowless office at the end of the corridor, 3rd on the right. Quite probably single and living at home with their mum.
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Stupid little things that bug you
- Thread starter Mikem93
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Before you get all het up think history. It wasn't pissed up aristocrats or politicians but merchant's, sailors and explorers. A white man lands in China and is told by a local the town in called Bejing. Bearing in mind ol' whitey doesn't speak Cantonese, by the time he's told the ships captain who takes 6 months to sail home before he can tell someone where he got all the silk from, by then in his memory its Peking.the seemingly arbitrary changes made to some foreign place-names...
who decided to do it?
when?
and why?
was it one individual who did it?
or was it some pissed up aristocrats or politicians one evening who got out a map of the world and randomly selected some cities or countries they didn't like the name of?
"Brasil! fuck that, let's change it to Brazil."
"Roma! fuck that, let's change it to Rome."
"Wien! fuck that, let's change it to Vienna"
frankly, it does my head in and makes no sense at all.
The same happened with Mumbai.
BrilliantSome twats justifying their wages in the various government departments, usually in an windowless office at the end of the corridor, 3rd on the right. Quite probably single and living at home with their mum.
Tuearts right boot
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Thinking about it, we, the Brits, discovered, conquered, pillaged and owned most of the world and seeing as over half the worlds population speaks English we therefore have the right to call these places what we dammed well want.the seemingly arbitrary changes made to some foreign place-names...
who decided to do it?
when?
and why?
was it one individual who did it?
or was it some pissed up aristocrats or politicians one evening who got out a map of the world and randomly selected some cities or countries they didn't like the name of?
"Brasil! fuck that, let's change it to Brazil."
"Roma! fuck that, let's change it to Rome."
"Wien! fuck that, let's change it to Vienna"
frankly, it does my head in and makes no sense at all.
Grassland Blue
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This explains some differences but what about Constantinople - Istanbul or Slaithwaite - Slowit.....Before you get all het up think history. It wasn't pissed up aristocrats or politicians but merchant's, sailors and explorers. A white man lands in China and is told by a local the town in called Bejing. Bearing in mind ol' whitey doesn't speak Cantonese, by the time he's told the ships captain who takes 6 months to sail home before he can tell someone where he got all the silk from, by then in his memory its Peking.
The same happened with Mumbai.
Don't know about the first 2 but isn't the third just because they are thick Yorkshire bastards ?This explains some differences but what about Constantinople - Istanbul or Slaithwaite - Slowit.....
Fiftyyearsandcounting
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I can never figure out why BBC news readers will some times pronounce foreign place names and persons in a local accent and other times not.Thinking about it, we, the Brits, discovered, conquered, pillaged and owned most of the world and seeing as over half the worlds population speaks English we therefore have the right to call these places what we dammed well want.
For example. they do their best to say Macron as Frenchy as possible but no flowery Italian for Berlusconi.
Kiev is Keeev, but Paris is not Pareee.
Mr Kobayashi
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Thinking about it, we, the Brits, discovered, conquered, pillaged and owned most of the world and seeing as over half the worlds population speaks English we therefore have the right to call these places what we dammed well want.
Did we ever conquer Brazil?
Tuearts right boot
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Probably....Did we ever conquer Brazil?
kaz7
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What annoys me is that the uk media have always pronnounced Obama's first name wrong , we all saw him standing there taking his oath and saying his own name , the media call him an army barrack instead of his proper name, it is not even complicated , grrrrI can never figure out why BBC news readers will some times pronounce foreign place names and persons in a local accent and other times not.
For example. they do their best to say Macron as Frenchy as possible but no flowery Italian for Berlusconi.
Kiev is Keeev, but Paris is not Pareee.