Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany
FishFace@piefed.social 1 day agoCountries aren’t people though. And depending on language and context, this does happen, and used to happen even more. Finns might refer to a David as Taavi in Finnish. John Cabot’s name in Italian was Giovanni.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 hours ago
Never said we shouldn’t be translating the names of countries, only that there is a reason to think we shouldn’t. Because the comment I was replying to said “There’s no reason to expect them to be the same in different languages.”