• FauxPseudo
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        61 month ago

        Everyone uses the name that China used. I guess that’s the benefit and downside of only having one neighbor.

        • FauxPseudo
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          21 month ago

          This caused me to think about upside versus downside and benefit versus some word that isn’t anti-benefit, unbenefit, abenefit, ilbenefit, irbenefit, imbenefit, inbenefit, debenefit, disbenefit. There is no etymological related antonym to benefit.

    • kronisk
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      1 month ago

      Without thinking much about it, my guess would be the United States of America.

      Edit: my reasoning was that most countries translate USA verbatim to their language, as most replies here demonstrate.

        • kronisk
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          31 month ago

          Translation, in order: The United States of America, The United States of America and The United States of America.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 month ago

            That’s how languages work, yes. They have different words for the same thing. How is that different from OP content?

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              Remember the meme? Deutschland, Duitsland, Tyskland are all regional variations on the same name. Allemagne and Germany are completely different names for the same country. Of course every language have their own way of saying “The United States of America”, but in essence it’s the same word, the same idea. Even Japan is Japón in Spanish, Ιαπωνία in greek, and so on. No one can pronounce my name correctly if I go abroad, but most of the time there is a regional variant I can use.

              The question was what country is known “by the same name” by the most people around the world. You’re not going to find a place name that is pronounced and/or written exactly the same in every language. That’s how languages work.

        • kronisk
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          71 month ago

          Finnish doesn’t count, having completely unrelated names for everything is like a sport to you people

          • @[email protected]
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            21 month ago

            It’s not even unrelated, it’s a literal translation of “United States” to Finnish

            Similarly in Estonian sometimes we’d just call it Ühendriigid instead of Ameerika Ühendriigid

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        11 month ago

        Amerikas Forenede Stater?

        But yeah, it’s too long, we usually call it USA. Although we pronounce the letters in the local way.