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Post by Montrealer on Aug 23, 2004 13:23:42 GMT -5
The entries are in alphabetical order so as to not influence the voting.
Why Czechia? I support those Czechs that agree with the Czech Foreign Ministry's suggestion that their nation be informally referred to as Czechia - it makes more sense (else why not call Germany the Federal Republic of Germany all the time, for example?)
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Post by blny on Aug 23, 2004 13:34:42 GMT -5
I'll take Canada. I think they'll play the US in the finals.
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Post by M. Beaux-Eaux on Aug 23, 2004 15:11:47 GMT -5
Slovakia - because they have Satan on their side.
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Post by Skilly on Aug 23, 2004 18:34:37 GMT -5
The entries are in alphabetical order so as to not influence the voting. Why Czechia? I support those Czechs that agree with the Czech Foreign Ministry's suggestion that their nation be informally referred to as Czechia - it makes more sense (else why not call Germany the Federal Republic of Germany all the time, for example?) Those aren't the only countries either. United States is actually The United States of America Canada is actually The Dominion of Canada So I agree with shortening Czech Republic .... but Czechia? That sounds like a skin disease. Czechiland! |
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Post by blaise on Aug 23, 2004 19:21:36 GMT -5
Czechia sound too much like Chechneya, and I'm sure the Czechs would not appreciate the association.
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Post by Montrealer on Aug 23, 2004 20:19:34 GMT -5
Czechia sound too much like Chechneya, and I'm sure the Czechs would not appreciate the association. I used to think that Czechia was an artificial construct, too - until I did a little research: www.p.lodz.pl/I35/personal/jw37/EUROPE/cesko2.htmwww.ling.ohio-state.edu/~hana/Czechia-name.htmlThe fact is, as Skilly pointed out: United States of America (official) // United States or U.S. or U.S.A. (unofficial) Dominion of Canada (official) // Canada (unofficial) United Kindom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (official) // U.K. or Great Britain or Britain or United Kingdom (unofficial) Russian Federation (official) // Russia (unofficial) Czech Republic (official) // Czechia (unofficial) |
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Post by PTH on Aug 23, 2004 22:08:44 GMT -5
Go Saku !
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Post by seventeen on Aug 24, 2004 1:18:23 GMT -5
If Greece can win Euro 2004, Germany can win this thing. Jawohl!
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Post by Rimmer on Aug 24, 2004 1:55:34 GMT -5
Finns all the way  R. |
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Post by mic on Aug 24, 2004 8:39:27 GMT -5
Czechia (even with Montrealer's explanation sounds still strange).
They are usually very motivated (even more if they can play against Russia) when playing for the national team, and now they have to win it for Ivan Hlinka (very sad news by the way).
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Post by Skilly on Aug 24, 2004 17:43:09 GMT -5
I will go with Cesko. Czechia sounds and appears too much like they copied the Slovaks (Slovakia). Cesko sounds original, we shouldn't even bother trying to "englishize" it.
By the way ..... How do we get Finland out of Suomi?
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Post by Montrealer on Aug 25, 2004 15:20:52 GMT -5
By the way ..... How do we get Finland out of Suomi? Ok, I did a little research. When the first Proto-Finns settled in the area around the Gulf of Finland, they seperated into various groups. One of the groups, the Sami, would eventually migrate north to the area today known as "Lapland" - yet the people who would constitute the state known as Finland ended up taking the name of this tribe upon themselves (Suomi). The Sami still exist today and prefer to be called Sami, not Laplanders. The Norwegians of the first millienium called the Suomi, Sami, and all others speaking their strange Finno-Ugric language "Finns" - and it meant "Laplander". Today Suomi is still known as Finland to the rest of the Scandinavians, and the rest of the World. |
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Post by Skilly on Aug 28, 2004 18:11:58 GMT -5
Official name: Konungariket Sverige
short form: Sverige
int'l long form: Kingdom of Sweden
int'l short form: Sweden
Oficial name: Suomen tasavalta,
Finlands republik (Republic of Finland)
Seems to me their isn't one country that goes by uts official name. Montrealer is on to something here.
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Post by Habs_fan_in_LA on Sept 10, 2004 12:10:18 GMT -5
The fact is, as Skilly pointed out: United States of America (official) // United States or U.S. or U.S.A. (unofficial) Dominion of Canada (official) // Canada (unofficial) United Kindom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (official) // U.K. or Great Britain or Britain or United Kingdom (unofficial) Russian Federation (official) // Russia (unofficial) Czech Republic (official) // Czechia (unofficial) United States of America (official) // U.S.A., Love it or Leave it! (unofficial) Dominion of Canada (official) // Canada-eh? (unofficial) United Kindom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (official) // Les Blokes (unofficial) Russian Federation (official) // Russian Holdouts (unofficial) Czech Republic (official) // Czechia (unofficial)[/quote] Sweeden (official) // Chickenship Sweedes (unofficial)[/quote] |
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