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Yazoul Samaiel
Caldari
Black Nova Corp
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2006.09.07 02:41:00 -
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Edited by: Yazoul Samaiel on 07/09/2006 02:44:14
 Originally by: Ishkur
Well, actually, you can call a country whatever the heck you want to call it. We do it all the time -- everyone does it, in fact.
If you ask someone in Egypt what is the name of their country, they won't say Egypt! They say Misr. That's the word in Arabic for their country. Somehow, somebody decided that in English, we'd just call it Egypt. Who cares what the locals think, huh?
It isn't even like we are trying to come close to something we can't pronounce (Arabic words are notoriously difficult for non-Semitic langauge-speakers to say). It isn't like we call it "Maser" or something. Nope, we just flat out disregard what they call their own country, and we give it our own name.
Who decides such things? I have no idea. 
So if Egypt calls itself "Jumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah" (source: CIA), and we just call it "Egypt," why can't they call the FA the NFA?
They could, if they wanted, call the Fountain Alliance "Bob" and it wouldn't really matter. These things are all a social construction anyway. 
Yes we call it Misr in our mothertoungue and since we dotn use the usual arabic that most other countires use , we have our own dialect which even makes arabic speacking ppl wonder what we are saying 
WTF , this thread is 3 years old , damn necromancy 
"What ever that doesn't Kill me just makes me stronger"
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Posted - 2006.09.07 02:47:00 -
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Dredging up old threads is a nono.
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Rift Scorn
Caldari
Black Nova Corp
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2006.09.07 03:05:00 -
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That's a bad Yaz! Bad!
Necromancy 4TL!
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Coasterbrian
Celestial Horizon Corp.
Ascendant Frontier
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Posted - 2006.09.07 03:39:00 -
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Originally by: Ishkur
Well, actually, you can call a country whatever the heck you want to call it. We do it all the time -- everyone does it, in fact.
If you ask someone in Egypt what is the name of their country, they won't say Egypt! They say Misr. That's the word in Arabic for their country. Somehow, somebody decided that in English, we'd just call it Egypt. Who cares what the locals think, huh?
It isn't even like we are trying to come close to something we can't pronounce (Arabic words are notoriously difficult for non-Semitic langauge-speakers to say). It isn't like we call it "Maser" or something. Nope, we just flat out disregard what they call their own country, and we give it our own name.
Who decides such things? I have no idea.
So if Egypt calls itself "Jumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah" (source: CIA), and we just call it "Egypt," why can't they call the FA the NFA?
They could, if they wanted, call the Fountain Alliance "Bob" and it wouldn't really matter. These things are all a social construction anyway.
I don't believe my eyes.
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Perpello
Shinra
Lotka Volterra
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Posted - 2006.09.07 03:58:00 -
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Whatever happened to Tarpeia (Ishkur)?
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Saucerhead
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Posted - 2006.09.07 09:59:00 -
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Time to bury the dead.
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