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The Countries: Forget it, Burkina Faso, Michigan is still the worst.

Hungary's has long been my favorite one, because it sets the stage for just how impossible it is for outsiders to pronounce anything in that language at first glance, let alone learn the grammar.
 
I remember Magyar Posta from my youth collecting.


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Lying Swiss:

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My youth specialization. I loved the name of this obsolete country and never dreamed it would be reborn and become world historical:

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These don’t really count because they aren’t truly endonyms
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TIL. Thank you.

An endonym or autonym is a common, native name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language, or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate themselves, their place of origin, or their language.

An exonym or xenonym is a foreign established, non-native name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language, or dialect, meaning that it is used primarily outside the particular place inhabited by the group or linguistic community. Exonyms exist not only for historico-geographical reasons but also in consideration of difficulties when pronouncing foreign words, or from non-systematic attempts at transcribing into a different writing system.

For instance, Deutschland is the endonym for the country that is also known by the exonyms Germany and Germania in English and Italian, respectively, Alemania and Allemagne in Spanish and French, respectively, Niemcy in Polish, and Saksa and Saksamaa in Finnish and Estonian, respectively.

The terms autonym, endonym, exonym and xenonym are formed by adding specific prefixes to the Greek root word ὄνομα (ónoma) 'name', from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nómn̥.
The prefixes added to these terms are also derived from Greek:

• endonym: ἔνδον (éndon) 'within';
• exonym: ἔξω (éxō) 'outside';
• autonym: αὐτός (autós) 'self'; and
• xenonym: ξένος (xénos) 'foreign'.

The terms autonym and xenonym also have different applications, thus leaving endonym and exonym as the preferred forms.
 
So, if we obliterated the Nuclear Program in Iran the last time we bombed them, why are we going to bomb them again? Has it been that long already? Or is everything this administration tells us a bald faced lie?
 
I hope no one's currently in Mexico

supposedly cartel leader dead, Guadelajara is burning, along with Jalisco. PV sounds like a mess, cartels threatening to go into hotels and homes tonight
 
According to the Cubans, people on this boat opened fire. Not sure I believe them, but this isn't going to be good for anyone.
 
#stephenmillersquadgoals Chinese edition

A newly proposed law in China would provide a broad legal framework to justify existing repression and force assimilation of minority populations throughout the country and abroad, Human Rights Watch said today. Once passed, the law could be used to facilitate intensifying ideological controls, target ethnic and religious minorities including by erasing minority language rights, and foster control beyond China’s borders.

The 62-article draft Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress was submitted to the National People’s Congress, China’s legislature, on September 8, 2025. An official explanatory document states that the law “implements General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important thinking” on ethnic affairs and promotes “the common prosperity and development of all ethnic groups … along the path of rule of law.”

“The Chinese government’s draft law on promoting ethnic unity seeks to mobilize the bureaucracy and society to unite people under Chinese Communist Party leadership at the expense of human rights,” said Maya Wang, associate Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Tibetans, Uyghurs, and others who speak out for minority populations can expect even greater government repression.”

The draft law prescribes a rigid and uniform ideological framework for China. In its preamble, it asserts an unbroken historical continuity of the modern People’s Republic of China, established in 1949, as “a civilization with a history of over 5,000 years” that has forged “a unified multi-ethnic nation” under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Xi Jinping has increasingly emphasized this narrative and these specific phrases while adopting ethnic policies characterized by forced assimilation.

The draft law formalizes the ideological framework of “a common consciousness of the Chinese nation” in such areas as education, religion, history, culture, tourism, mass media, and the internet. For example, article 14 directs that authorities “establish and highlight … Chinese cultural symbols” in public facilities, architecture, and tourist sites, including when naming places.
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Replace "Han" with "WASP" and you've got the GOP platform for 2028.
 
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