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PugJesus @lemmy.world

7mo ago

What's in a name?

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NATO logo but everyone is as entitled as the Fr*nch:

(Yes, I know most of these official languages use "NATO" but that's exactly what makes the French entitled.)
- NAFO CONFIRMED
  
  Swedish is Nordatlantiska fördragsorganisationen
- I guess AB is Germany? Just because they like to string their words together...
  
  I guess, Atlantisches Bündnis (Atlantic Alliance) is what's written on Wikipedia, but I've never heard someone actually say that
  
  Nord-Atlantik-Vertrags-Organisation or Nordatlantikvertragsorganisation (NAVO) would be German.
  AB is Swedish, as everything in Sweden is an Aktiebolag ;)
  (Just kidding. NATO in Swedish is Nordatlantiska fördragsorganisationen, NAFO)
- When NATO was formed, French was the lingua franca, and as such it made sense to put the French acronym on the logo. I suppose it's still there because they didn't want to change it.
  
  When do you think NATO was founded, 1850?
- If we call the french entitled, then the English are even more so
- Still not right, since if everyone was as entitled as the French then Australia and New Zealand would have been part of NATO from day1.
  France is the reason we aren't.

I like the way they solved this for the global reference time standard. In English it's called Cordinated Universal Time (CUT) but in French it's called Temps Universel Coordonné (TUC).
Apparently, both sides wanted to use their preferred acronym globally and wouldn't budge. The problem was only solved by eventual agreement to use UTC, which doesn't make sense in either language, but I guess at least it's fair that way.

C’est l’OTAN.
Arrêtez votre anglocentrisme.
- French detected, opinion rejected
  
  Je Suis Suisse

The ol, Organized Treaty of Atlantean Northerners

Will there be a French equivalent when POTATO becomes a thing?
- POMME

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