atomicbocks comments on the empire has no clothes

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works -4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I mean… Japan isn’t called Japan in Japanese either. Unfortunately we don’t speak Mayan, or Incan, or Cherokee, or etc.…

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

I'm fairly certain they wouldn't collectively name it after a random ass Italian dude.

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[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

My point was that it’s the only word we have in English.

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