Simfan34
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« on: April 26, 2012, 05:10:24 PM » |
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People here speak of Czechoslovakia all the time, which is odd especially considering that a good deal of my peers, who use the term, were not even born while it was extant... I suppose many have been taught they have "Czechoslovakian" backgrounds and thus think in those terms. In any case, "Czech Republic" is an odd term to me, but the alternative "Czechia" seems even odder to Anglophone ears, which is bizarre considering almost every other language uses its equivalent when speaking of the country. Why has this become the case?
Soviet Union... perhaps this is his Palin moment.
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