>wh-wha-what the FUCK, did you just say, "THE Ukraine"? Adding a definite article to Ukraine is a soviet era insensitive and rude thing to do
Wh-wha-what the FUCK, did you just say, "THE Ukraine"...
Luis Garcia
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Kayden Gutierrez
I do not know what this thread is about.
Ryder Cruz
>THE Ukraine
It triggers me to be honest.
Ryder Mitchell
>HOLY SHIT! did you just say Czechoslovakia? That isn't a country anymore you subhuman, don't lump my country in with theirs!
Jeremiah Ramirez
>B-b-BELORUSSIA?! That's not the name of my country, this isn't 1990!
Camden Cruz
>Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia? no no no, now we're the repuclic of northern macedonia now
Zachary Parker
>Why yes, I do still refer to Russia as the "Soviet Union"! How can you tell?
Nolan Foster
>why yes, i did always refer to the soviet union as russia, how could you tell?
Aiden Carter
Thomas Hughes
>did you just say that the russians invaded afghanistan? WTF? The soviet union was made up of many more countries than just russia, you can't refer to the whole thing as russia!
Oliver Cook
>NOOOOOOOO YOU SOVIETS CAN'T JUST GENOCIDE THE PRUSSIANS
Jace Wilson
>Hold the FUCK up, did you just refer to the pre-German Baltic people as Prussians? NO, Prussia should ONLY refer to the German Prussia!
Xavier Bailey
If I had a baltic soyjak I would reply to this post with
>NOOOOOO YOU TEUTONS CAN'T JUST GENOCIDE THE PRUSSIANS
But I don't rn so please imagine what the post would look like
Parker Russell
Said literally no one ever
Jason Sanders
>I imagined it, it was hilarious
Luis Flores
>does your map of Russia NOT GO EAST OF THE URAL MOUNTAINS? That’s a map of Rus you idiot, lands east of the Ural Mountains belong to Russians as well, it doesn’t matter that we stole it you russophobic subhuman!
Gabriel Adams
The only belarusian I know in real life calls it that and it's a 20 year old zoomer.
Josiah Lewis
>On the Ukraine
Wyatt Gomez
And nobody says that as well
Bentley Barnes
Chad
Parker Clark
>Did you just call it Gambia? It's The Gambia ignorant swine!!
Joseph Thompson
>sorry, you must be a native speaker of a Latin language, in English you shouldn’t confuse on and in
Brandon Sanchez
BASED
Jose Foster
Just came to say that OP is based, goodnight.
Grayson Cruz
>did you just say DROC? No it should be DRC, why would the “of” get its own letter in the acronym?!
Nathan Stewart
>woah check those digits
>anyway, right back at you quad bro
Jackson Nelson
based
Ayden Hill
>Eswatini? It's spelled eSwatini with a lowercase e and a capital s retard!!
Henry Jackson
>what the fuck? Did you just pronounce Niger as “nigger”? It’s a soft g you retard
Jose Torres
>Did.. did you just say "on a Ukraine"?
Jayden Young
Jace Baker
>NOOOOOOOOOOOO, IT'S KYIV NOT KIEV, STOP OPPRESSING US WITH RUSSIFICATION
Liam Ortiz
>Krym is Ukrainian
Leo Brooks
>does your map of the Middle East include Sinai but not the rest of Egypt? Look either we’re in the Middle East or not, don’t split my country up!
Jack Wood
Is this actually true?
Aiden Ward
>U.S. President Barack Obama stood at a local elementary school in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to tout his new budget proposal. But after his opening remarks, the first question was inevitably about foreign affairs. In response to a reporter who asked about Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Obama eventually said this: “It is important that Congress stand with us. I don’t doubt the bipartisan concern that’s been expressed about the situation in the Ukraine.”
>It’s likely that any Ukrainian Americans tuned to C-SPAN at that particular moment cringed, not at the prospect of the country’s salvation coming from Congress’s bipartisan expressions — unsettling though that thought may be — but from three little letters: the.
>“Ukraine is a country,” says William Taylor, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009. “The Ukraine is the way the Russians referred to that part of the country during Soviet times … Now that it is a country, a nation, and a recognized state, it is just Ukraine. And it is incorrect to refer to the Ukraine, even though a lot of people do it.”
In recent weeks, as the upheaval in Ukraine has escalated, many journalists and U.S. Administration officials and pundits have been guilty of the same sin as Obama, who usually gets it right. Though such slips are not meant to be slights, they can still rankle people from a nation that became independent in 1991 and is now fighting to maintain stable autonomy as Russian boots step onto their soil. Taylor says that the diaspora, those Ukrainians now abroad and hearing reports about their homeland in English, are particularly sensitive to this definite article. “Whenever they hear the Ukraine, they fume,” Taylor says. “It kind of denies their independence, denies their sovereignty.”
Carter Cook
>Krym is Theukranian
Sebastian Green
>ja the word for Russia in German is Russland, why wouldn’t you translate the Slavic “ia” to the Germanic “land”, are you sort of Slavist?
Oliver Nguyen
>on a Ukraine
Blake Rodriguez
>what is the world? why would you say iberia to mean the kingdom of iberia in the caucus mountains? are you some idiot, iberia should always refer to MY peninsula!
Easton Cruz
>Does your post really fucking refer to Caucasian Albania as just Albania? My people didn't die in wars for a free Balkans Albania for you to just use our name for some irrelevant kingdom a thousand plus years ago
Brandon Edwards
>Did you just refer to india as GANGIA?! that's not our fucking name, who cares that we're named after a pakistani river, it's OUR name now!
Noah Bailey
nice
Nathan Turner
>W-w-what? Did you just say "The British Isles", referring to Ireland as part of them? NO! NO! IRELAND IS NOT BRITISH, YOU CANNOT CALL IT BRITISH!!!
Landon Cruz
Any use of the word America refers to my country
James Gray
>SOUTHERN IRELAND?! what the FUCK? just because the country north of us is northern ireland, doesn't make us southern ireland!
Julian White
>south america? oh you mean like texas to florida?
Brody Johnson
Kill yourself you diarrhea slurping wojak poster.
Blake Williams
>LONDONDERRY!!?!?!??? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND???!?!?!?!?!?!!?!
Colton Stewart
Make one on the Georgias OP
Jaxon Morgan
>NOOOO Canada is an independent country we're not part of the United Kingdom anymore we just share the same head of state
Juan Richardson
>No the southern cone isn't third world, we're almost completely developed! in fact classifying countries as first, second, or third world is a cold war era concept used to delineate what side of the war countries were on, IT SHOULDN'T BE USED TO DISPARAGE UNDEVELOPED COUNTRIES!
Adrian Harris
>What the fuck, you're using Georgia to describe a u.s. state and not saying "the U.S. state of Georgia". Do you fucking think Stalin was from Atlanta? My ancestors didn't die for an independent Georgia to be mistaken with some backwater U.S. state!
Jordan Jenkins
>Scotchman?!! Are you fucking kidding me??? Our ancestors gave up Gaelic for this!!!?!!?!?!
Andrew Diaz
>Canadia? what in the actual fuck? do you with we're some slavic country of a people called Canad? no? then why the fuck would you use "ia"?!
Daniel Hall
>WHAT THE FUCK YOU CANT JUST CALL THE WESTERN BALKANS YUGOSLAVIA!!! YUGOSLAVIA BROKE APART IN THE 90'S!!!
Colton Taylor
>Argentinian? Actually we are called Argentines
Jaxson Young
>Serbo-croat-bosnian!!!???! what in the actual fuck? Serbo-Croatian is bad enough, don't lump those fucking muslims in with us!
Aaron Fisher
>Democracy
Ayden Adams
Definite articles are only acceptable for acronyms such as "the USA". It gets even more annoying in other languages due to cases, in German "Switzerland" is "due Schweiz" but in dative and genitive is "der Schweiz". Taking this a step further, fucking Russians and I assume other slavs even conjugate names but I'm getting off topic
Mason Clark
I've always read it referred to as the Ukraine
Brandon Bailey
It used to be the Ukrainian SSR, that's why the article stuck
Dominic Ward
>the Netherlands
Hudson Roberts
>What is this football match you are watching?
>Ireland vs France? Excuse me, what? You're calling them just IRELAND?! You realize that the official name of the team is REPUBLIC OF IRELAND because they do not encompass the entire island of Ireland?!
Robert Lopez
This one also annoys me, just call it Netherlands or Holland (Großholland :^))
Jordan Stewart
Die Schweiz* autocorrect from multiple languages and such.
Lucas Perry
Gabriel Flores
fuck
Dylan Jenkins
>did you just refer to Myanmar as Burma? its not a british colony anymore, you insensitive idiot!
Ayden Kelly
eSwatini is what triggers me the most. When I heard they were going to change name from Swaziland I was happy until I've read the new name. The Gambia is also pretty retarded
Wyatt Gray
>yeah, did you know iceland is actually green and greenland is actually ice? it's because they wanted to trick people into going to the wrong one ahah
Dominic Morgan
Good thread
Jayden Parker
>INDOCHINA?! Do you think we're some indian chinese rapebabies or something!?!?
Noah Stewart
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