zlatiah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 天前"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronymmessage-squaremessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1153arrow-down110
arrow-up1143arrow-down1message-square"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronymzlatiah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 天前message-square59fedilink
minus-squaretigeruppercut@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·19 小时前They usually say Nihon instead of Nippon. Some English used to use words derived from nippon as well but they mostly dropped out of the language not too long after WWII, prob bc nip is an old slur for Japanese people. There’s an ee cummings poem that refers to a piece of “nipponized steel”. https://allpoetry.com/poem/13587560-plato-told-by-e.e.-cummings
They usually say Nihon instead of Nippon.
Some English used to use words derived from nippon as well but they mostly dropped out of the language not too long after WWII, prob bc nip is an old slur for Japanese people. There’s an ee cummings poem that refers to a piece of “nipponized steel”.
https://allpoetry.com/poem/13587560-plato-told-by-e.e.-cummings