About as weird as calling Nihon "Japan".

Tbf a good chunk of Europe calls it "land of people that can't speak" basically

Du meinst Deutschland.

And what about the Romance languages. They call Germany “Land of the Alemanni”, they called an entire country full of different tribes after a single Germanic tribe that lived near the French/Italian border. It’s like calling the entire country of the Netherlands Amsterdam.

The weirdest ones are the Finns, calling Germany Saksa.
I'm German and I feel more at home when I'm in Finland than in Sachsen.

Not any weirder than any other English speaking country.

English speakers call Deutschland Germany, don't give us all the credit here. And it's called that cause the UK hated keeping track of what y'all were calling yourselves, so they chose bigotry instead (a common theme for England). The rest of us usually don't know the history and just have a word with no context as to why it is that way.

For those Americans who don't understand, calling it Germany is like calling First Nation land "Indialand" because "how can anyone keep track of what they call it? It's always changing!"

TYSKLAND

Why put that on the US? We just carried on calling it what the English did.

Just remember that "no" is the particle that indicates possession, so you need to show what it's possessing if you use it.

Sore can be used as a subject or object directly:

それを説明して下さい。
Explain that please.

Compared to:

その話を説明して下さい。
Explain that conversation please.

Using "no" to show possession can be used without indicating the possessed word with regular nouns, but not the kono/sono/ano words.

家のドアは大きい。
The house's door is big.
家のは大きい。
The house's is big.

Thank you for actually talking about the post ;)

I find that when speaking about them in isolation I also have to take a split-second to remember which one is which. But after a bit of practice, when actually forming sentences, you'll develop a feeling for it and using the wrong one will sound wrong to your ears so you won't need to think about it.

But both of those examples are pronouns?

what about koitsu ... Germany line?

I happen to be Russian, and yeah. Not the language to learn for funsies.

This, that, tentacle monster.

I'm expecting the last one to mean "anal"