I’ll admit I was rather ignorant growing up and the first time I had a conversation with someone and I pronounced Iran as “I ran” everyone roasted the shit outta me and shut me down, which like fair whatever. But my point is the pronunciation is secondary if you get the concept; that’s kinda the point of language and accents in general. If we have to pronounce every country or place as its residents call it then we should roast and ignore every English speaker that says “Germany” instead of Deutschland.

  • TheOctonaut@piefed.zipEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Your comparison is only valid if 4% of the world decided to pronounce it “Yermany” in English while everyone else called it Germany as it had been for millenia.

    • pupperdreams@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Okay but Germany calls Germany Deutschland, France calls them Allemagne, the Finns call it Saksa, and so on. Also Germany has not existed as a country for millenia. It unified in the late 1800s. All this said I think we should call places by the names given to them by those that live there.

      Edit: before you respond I reread op and realize I’m an idiot