linguistic paradox (ENG-GRE)
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by giannis tsiolis
Dear Readers,
I was fooling around on a online-translator.
Ι came across something quite intresting, please bare with me for a little bit.
What is Germany' s name?
in English : Germany
in German : Deutschland
in French : Allemagne
Three different names, in three different languanges for the same country. Yet Germans do not report, any player that call their country, differently than they do. Perhaps because they comprehend it is a different language.
What's Greece' s name?
in English : Greece
in Greek : Ellatha or Ellas
in Turkish : Yunanistan
Yet no report ever took place, because people wrote in their own language.
And finally, what is the name of that country :
in English : FYROM
in Slavomacedonian : Македонија or Macedonia (pronounced Makedonya)
in Greek : ΠΓΔΜ (or PGDM in latin letters).
Amazingly peculiar, but many players have been reported and received FP because they wrote "e-FYROM" in an english text or "e-PGDM" in a greek text instand of the word "e-Македонија" (or "e-Macedonia").
Is it not a paradox???
What is your opinion in this?
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Αγαπητοί Αναγνώστες,
έπαιζα τυχαία με έναν διαδικτυακό μεταφραστή.
Συνάντησα λοιπόν ένα γλωσσικό παράδοξο. Παρακαλώ ανεχτήτε με για λίγο.
Ποιό είναι το όνομα της Γερμανίας ;
στα Αγγλικά : Germany
στα Γερμανικά : Deutschland
στα Γαλλικά : Allemagne
Τρία τόσο διαφορετικά ονόματα σε τρεις γλώσσες για την ίδια χώρα. Κι όμως κανείς Γερμανός, δεν ανέφερε κάποιον παίκτη που ονόμασε την χώρα του διαφορετικά από ότι ο ίδιος. Ίσως επειδή καταλαβαίνει ότι είναι σε διαφορετική γλώσσα.
Ποιο είναι το όνομα της Ελλάδας ;
στα Αγγλικά : Greece
στα Ελληνικά : Ελλάς
στα Τούρκικα : Yunanistan
Και πάλι καμία αναφορά δεν έγινε, επειδή οι άνθρωποι μιλούν την γλώσσα τους.
Και τελικά ποιο είναι το όνομα αυτής της χώρας;
στα Αγγλικά : FYROM
στα Σλαβομακεδόνικα : Македонија (προφέρεται Μακεντόνγια)
στα Ελληνικά : ΠΓΔΜ
Εκπληκτικά παράξενο, είναι το γεγονός ότι, παίκτες αναφέρθηκαν, και έλαβαν FP (πόντους ποινής), επειδή σε αγγλικό κείμενο έγραψαν "e-FYROM" ή σε ελληνικό κείμενο έγραψαν "e-ΠΓΔΜ" , αντί για "e-Macedonia" ή "e-Македонија".
Αν δεν είναι αυτό παράδοξο, τότε ποιο είναι;
Εσείς τι λέτε;
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v
admins must tell us...
maybe RACISM???
V
This is not an administrator or moderators choice. This is THE OWNER'S POLITICAL choice to run this game, and as far as I know, he is a little boy who got lucky with a startup. He knows nothing about politics and it's obvious by the game he runs.
v
Are you sure that the reason for the FPs is that they wrote e-FYROM instead of e-Macedonia? I think there's more to it than that.
Otherwise, you're right. No nation can decide their name in a different language.
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v and convinced
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Another great article by u sir, but with a fairly easy question.
I can't answer u about FYROM, but i can answer about Greece. It's generally accepted that the main characteristics of every country are: (1) Same culture, (2) A population of the same ethnic group, (3) Same language and (that's up to debate) (4) Same religion. The above characteristics must apply for the majority of the population, or else the country will fall apart by the various minoritys who will struggle to take control. We have seen it before (eastern europe, balkans) and we will see it again.
Greece fulfills all the above characteristics, her population knows who their country is and they don't care about how other people names her.
If we couldn't fulfill (all) the above characteristics, our country would have been just an empty envelope with a name written outside. If u take away that name there is nothing left. And Greece would have start a struggle with threats, lies and reports inorder to at least defend her name since there is nothing else to defend. But as u mentioned above we don't. I wonder why others do... 😉
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Another propagandistic attempt by the administrators of this game to promote a name, which is not accept by the intonational community (UN), in order to establish a fake an artificial identity/history.
Enjoy them
in english it's called Republic of Macedonia (καλώς ή κακώς)
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