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Originally Posted by Kanji_The_Wanderer
I never studied language as you can see so I don't know how other countries operate. I didn't really know that countries have certain names for others. I thought they called them by what they really were...
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as i said i think the reason for you not being aware of this is because you are always interacting in english, thus people will refer to countries by their english name. swap over to another language though and things get different ^^
also names of countries are not generally made by mistake, they have reason at the time and evolve over time. they may sound quite different now from when they were initially used. there is the explanation where the name for japan came from in an earlier post. i don't see how that was at all a mistake. just evolution of a word through time
this might be of interest for you, im guessing you're american, sorry if i'm wrong. i'm not american myself but yeah... anyway, list of how america is known in other languages:
Saying "United States of America" in various [email protected]