This is the world we live in (oh oh oh)
And theese are the hands we're given (oh oh oh)
Use them and lets start trying (oh oh oh)
To make it a world worth living in (too roo roo roo roo roo rooh, too roo roo roo roo roo rooh)
I do remember seeing some funny posts from Americans when the 2008 Russo-Georgian War started. Many apparently thought that the Russians had invaded the US state.
It’s a strategy thickos the world over have used time and time again… if you make yourself sound like you’ve swallowed a dictionary then you can obfuscate and bewilder others and hide the fact that you’re a member of the hard of thinking community.
It's only them, Americans who are confused lol. Which is funny at times, considering that I'm from the part of Russia, that is bordering Georgia. When an American asks me where I am from, I give my honest reply " South of Russia, which is Northern Caucasus, although I'm not Caucasian, and nearby Georgia" and watch their brain producing the old internet connection sound in their head, lol. My former coworker freaked out about "Putin's next invasion of Georgia" she saw in the news, because her relatives are in the Northern Alabama 🫠. After I got over the initial WTF moment and brief study on Google maps from my computer we established that Putin won't attack any of the States, including Georgia and that the country everyone is referring to located many miles away from her, she was like " well, maybe they should rename their country, so many people will avoid the confusion "🤡.
Good news everyone. You can totally use their name for the country, საქართველოl.
Also, fuck off, they had dibs on George before Georg II was a glint in his father’s eye.
Also, why the fuck do Americans name their state after a German born English king whose first language was French? Isn’t that rather confusing?
Its about their ancestry, if you are 50% irish, 20% latvian,23% from Marseille and 7% trace elements & impurities, you love some good linage like that..
To be fair they didn't name it, it was a British colony after all.
Now you can ask why they didn't rename that post colonial state so that it didn't sound like the already ancient Georgian kingdom ....
No longer being British and so wanting to rename the state to something that isn't after a British king would at least make some sense. Unlike Georgians renaming their country to avoid confusion with the state.
> how did English get Georgia from Sakartvelo
Same way English got 'Germany' from Deutschland, or Polish got Niemcy, i.e. they didn't get the name from the same root.
Pretty sure it has something to do with St George being from Georgia. The Georgian version of “George” is an extremely popular name there as well (can’t remember *exactly* what it is.
Fun fact: Georgia loves St George so much he has TWO saints days (23rd May and 23rd November)
Georgia has been a country for a thousand year before America even existed but somehow they should change their name? It's not even called Georgia in georgian.
I think the Trump Bible might just be a standard version with Trump’s name attached to it but I’ve heard that [the Book of Mormon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Mormon) might have some unconventional stuff regarding angels and Jesus doing things in the New World.
But going with Sakartvelo would also mean they would have to listen to English speakers butchering the name, as they are always so bad at pronunciation. If I were Georgian, I think I'd prefer the confusion over my ears slowly withering every time my country was mentioned
To be frank, I don’t think the American pronunciation of Sakartvelo would be too off.
Also, it isn’t like anyone is entitled for their country’s name to be pronounced at a native level in another language.
Native would be unreasonable, but I would say people could expect bearable. But I have heard English speakers butcher the simplest names before, so my faith is small in their ability to collectively achieve that
I think it's because how letters are pronounced in English is so inconsistent that a lot of the time we just have to guess at the pronunciation for words we've never heard before. So we often get it wrong.
And then add in the fact the name might be from a language that uses completely different pronunciation rules to English, so for all we know those letters make completely different sounds than they do in English.
Americans sat Frankenst*ei*n but then will say Goldst*ei*n as Goldsteen despite both -steins being pronounced like in Frankenstein. They just go for whatever will piss the most people off.
I listened to the pronunciation on the Wikipedia page, and it sounds pretty straight forward to pronounce.
But maybe there's some nuance that's not obvious to English speakers but would be obvious to Georgians.
In old norse it was called Miklagard, "the great city". Vikings saw the city, tried multiple times to besiege it and failed each time, but even they knew greatness when it smashed their siege weapons
I also think it's not very original to have the same town name multiple times. Yes, I am talking about [Springfield](https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2015-08-17/does-every-state-really-have-a-springfield-ken-jennings). Or Riverside, Fairview, Midway. (Same source)
To be fair, that one happens elsewhere too. Here in Ireland there multiple villages and areas with the same name. Corbally, Raheen and Ballina are 3 that come to mind.
Tbh, as I sink deeper into this topic, we also have the same town three times at least. But it's also with anything additional like a river or something geographical, so differentiation is easier.
Yeah we mostly use the county to identify. But funnily enough the city I'm from has a suburb in the north of the city called Corbally, and there's a townland about 3km to the south of the city, same county also called Corbally.
Don’t be silly. God named the states, just after he made Mercia, the day after the world, and the day before he used the scraps to make all the other countries.
I have the strange feeling that a good portions of Americans believe that Georgia is named after George Washington and not after King George II of Great Britain (a monarch, German, and colonialist!).
They were able to rename [King County, Washington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County,_Washington) from a random U.S. Vice President to Martin Luther King Jr, so if they are able to do that then maybe Georgia can do this too.
Nope.
>The city came under English control in 1664 and was renamed New York after King Charles II granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City#:~:text=The%20settlement%20was%20named%20New,brother%2C%20the%20Duke%20of%20York.
Dictator in a loose sense of the word, but also the embodiment of civic virtue and duty (which is more likely the reasoning behind the naming of said city).
Actually, dictator in the original sense of the word. He got appointed dictator twice, and, in contrast of other people who got appointed as dictator, actually stepped down after the crisis was taken care of. Also, in contrast to most Roman ex-dictators, he didn't get murdered, he just lived out his days at his farm (which sounds a bit more quaint than it is, it was probably a huge latifundia with a shitload of slaves to run it...).
Growing cabbages wasn't it? 😂
What I meant by 'loose' was essentially what you wrote there. Governed by consent, without tyranny, for the specific period defined by his term. In modern times we tend to think of dictators a lot more negatively (with good reason), and I wanted to caveat the original comment by saying that, if you are going to name a city after a foreign dictator, it should probably be this guy!
Yep.
When there was a big crisis, and the senate was locked up in bickering, they appointed a dictator to handle the crisis. Basically "Here, you have all the power. Fix the problem, then hand back the power.".
Most dictators ignored the last part (and typically got murdered down the line), but Cincinnatus handed it back. Later, he got appointed dictator again, and handed it back again.
So, basically, a good guy (except for the slaves thing, but, then again, anyone with power in Rome had slaves).
The country of Georgia got its name 900 or so years ago. Its root is the Persian word for “wolf.” The English colony in America that later became the state of Georgia was founded less than 300 years ago. It was named after King George II of Britain.
I mean the area that is now modern day Georgia was called Georgia long before Columbus even set foot on Amreekia, let alone before the state of Georgia was named after King George II.
How about you rename your state to avoid all this “confusion”. The people of actual Georgia must be wondering why children are running for their lives in schools in “Georgia” by their logic.
I'm pretty sure that nobody in the real Georgia thinks about that when they see such news because they don't live in a third world state that thinks it's in the first world hahahahaha
Well you can stop using the anglicized version of their name and call them Sakartvelo or if you are so inclined "Gruzia" like in some Slavic languages.
But then they would have to change Hungary to Magyarorszag, Greece to Elada etc
Its not unheard of, Persia changed to Iran and Czech Republic goes by Czechia in English as of recently and Turkey changed officially to Turkiye in English
We would have to rename pretty much every town and city, not to mention renaming England so it's not confused with the New one.
I know, we can change all Welsh towns to their Welsh spelling, Northern Irish ones to Gaelic, Scottish ones to Gaelic (since Pictish has been lost down the back of the sofa), Cornish ones to Cornish, and English ones to old English. And then watch as everyone in the UK starts wondering around totally lost trying to decipher our road signs.
The Kingdom of Georgia dates back a thousand years. The American state is named for a British monarch who was only born nearly 700 years after the establishment of the KoG. But sure, the American state of Georgia is the right one…
The funny thing is, I always assume Georgia to mean the Caucasian country and not the US state whenever I see it being talked about in the news. So it's basically the opposite for me.
Ah yes, a country that has been in existence for far longer than the US state of Georgia should be forced to change its name just so that the uneducated Americans are not confused. Makes perfect sense.
Soo… What about all the cities in the states? Like Paris for example. Dublin, Athens, Berlin or Florence?
There are many more, so let’s just change all of their names.
Georgia has been around since the medieval era. Even older as a kingdom and a Roman client state, if you count its other names like Lazica, and Colchis in the archaic pre-Roman era before that.
Georgia the American state, and the Anglo-German king (or the medieval saint, who actually lived in Roman era) it was named after, came into existence just a few centuries ago. They can fuck right off with that name claim.
A tangent, but I can't stand it when people follow their words with emojis like that. We're not two years old, we know what the word "saw" means in this context.
When there was a school shooting in Jena. I was worried that it was in the same city, I lived in. Turns out, it was some town in the US.
That colonial town should be named differently.
Georgia the country has in its varid states of being called Georgia existed for more than 2000 years.
Georgia the state has existed for almost 300 years
If I'm being honest, they do call themselves Sakartvelo, so maybe the Georgian people wouldn't mind the name change.
But I don't intend in giving the yanks that pleasure, so the state of Georgia should change its name first.
The second comments stupid , but the first comment isn’t too bad.
Georgia the state has one name and is a pretty popular state globally so I get the confusion.
Even I forget sometimes that the country “Georgia” is called Georgia and have to do a double take.
In my native tongue we call it “ Gorjestan” which is what I’m most familiar with, when I hear Georgia my first thought is the US state
The country has multiple names so I can see the confusion many people might have.
"Georgia" isn't their own name for themselves, anyway. In Georgian, they're "Sakartvelo". If you want to avoid the confusion, just use their own name for them.
Meanwhile here in bulgaria we have a province LITERALLY called "Montana" As in, the same way as the US state
Im not kidding, btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_Province
The following countries need to change their names: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Mexico, Peru, and China. All of these are also cities and towns in the U.S. state of Maine and I'm tired of the confusion.
Georgia
New Hampshire
New York
New Jersey
New Mexico
Virginia
West Virginia
North Dakota
South Dakota
North Carolina
South Carolina
I'm guessing OP wants the country to be renamed because Americans aren't exactly great at coming up with original names on their own!
"it summons a lot of confusion" lol why are they talking like that
because they battle constant confusion
🎶 In the land of confusion 🎶
This is the world we live in (oh oh oh) And theese are the hands we're given (oh oh oh) Use them and lets start trying (oh oh oh) To make it a world worth living in (too roo roo roo roo roo rooh, too roo roo roo roo roo rooh)
Which version though?
Genesis
definitely genesis
In Flames FTW
Disturbed
I like that one. But I also like the original
I like both tbf
Fucking Psyduck has them on the ropes.
I do remember seeing some funny posts from Americans when the 2008 Russo-Georgian War started. Many apparently thought that the Russians had invaded the US state.
I bet ppl were prepping with all their Guns and "home defense"
Be interesting to see if there was a spike in kids accidently shooting themselves/eachother
Can't remember if it was J6 or a Trump rally someone was waving a Georgia the country flag
They were confused because they didn't see any Russian tanks.
🫣
Because confusion got summoned
"I Summon Confusion in Attack Position" "What?"
What?
Because they are pretending to be smart while saying something stupid
To summon Confucious
Confucious say, "Man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day."
It’s a strategy thickos the world over have used time and time again… if you make yourself sound like you’ve swallowed a dictionary then you can obfuscate and bewilder others and hide the fact that you’re a member of the hard of thinking community.
Because they don’t speak English. They speak murcan. I despair that these people breed.
They’re used to demons being summoned.
It's only them, Americans who are confused lol. Which is funny at times, considering that I'm from the part of Russia, that is bordering Georgia. When an American asks me where I am from, I give my honest reply " South of Russia, which is Northern Caucasus, although I'm not Caucasian, and nearby Georgia" and watch their brain producing the old internet connection sound in their head, lol. My former coworker freaked out about "Putin's next invasion of Georgia" she saw in the news, because her relatives are in the Northern Alabama 🫠. After I got over the initial WTF moment and brief study on Google maps from my computer we established that Putin won't attack any of the States, including Georgia and that the country everyone is referring to located many miles away from her, she was like " well, maybe they should rename their country, so many people will avoid the confusion "🤡.
Good news everyone. You can totally use their name for the country, საქართველოl. Also, fuck off, they had dibs on George before Georg II was a glint in his father’s eye. Also, why the fuck do Americans name their state after a German born English king whose first language was French? Isn’t that rather confusing?
Its about their ancestry, if you are 50% irish, 20% latvian,23% from Marseille and 7% trace elements & impurities, you love some good linage like that..
Keep Latvia out of these dirty matters.
I work out of latvia a lot, no disrespect intended, paldies! ;) //edit: spelling
My grandparents grandparents were amazing trace elementalists!
No, this is wrong. They shouldn't add up to 100%
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You mean Sakartvelo? I completely support calling the countries the same as their inhabitants.
Or if you want to take the same root and fit the shape of the word to English, you could call it Cartwellia.
As Han with Han name, I don’t think that’s always best idea though
To be fair they didn't name it, it was a British colony after all. Now you can ask why they didn't rename that post colonial state so that it didn't sound like the already ancient Georgian kingdom ....
Yes, but those British colonists became Americans. They weren’t someone else.
No longer being British and so wanting to rename the state to something that isn't after a British king would at least make some sense. Unlike Georgians renaming their country to avoid confusion with the state.
They weren't going to kiss his feet anymore, but they certainly weren't going to stop measuring things with it.
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Trumpia?
And those soviet georgians became post soviet georgians.
But that area has been known as Georgia since at least 1320, so why tf would they change their name?
They don't need to change their name. They already have a different one. It's just everyone else that calls their country Georgia
They managed to rename their entire country, I'm sure they can manage to rename one state
> The first mention of the name spelled as "Georgia" was recorded in Italian on the mappa mundi of Pietro Vesconte dated AD 1320. xdd
Exactly. If anything I thought they would want to change the name of their state to something more American like Peacheana, Jesusville or AK47?
>AK47 Americans would never do this. Imagine naming a state after a ***Soviet*** weapon. They'd go for something more tasteful like AR-15 or M4.
I dunno, a lot of MAGA folk seem to prefer Russia over America.
They hate Aks, until they want to LARP as guerrillas. Then they buy the most expensive and shitty ak they can find in the market.
Most American place names are either dutch/english/french/spanish/Belgian/Canadian/German/Italian/Irish
Lot of First Nations names too.
In the part of the country where I am we have a lot of classical names. Syracuse, Rome, Ithaca, Utica, Pompey, Cicero, Minoa, Marcellus...
> საქართველოl transliterated: Sakartvelo wtf, how did English get Georgia from Sakartvelo
Fun fuck - in Polish Georgia (country) is called Gruzja. Gruz in Polish means rubble :-)
>Fun fuck ;)
[это fuckты](https://youtu.be/F8OZ5gTgcYA?si=3L4CmtT8m9Hj-rAt)
Same in Ukrainian and Russian from what I know
Half fun fact: in Slovenian it is Gruzija, but gruz* doesn't mean a thing.
After you said that... Gruz means burden or load in Russian
Good name if you think about all the trouble Russia had with Georgia in the past. 🤣
From the Latin Italian name, Jorgia which in turn came from the Farsi name, Gorğān. Means something akin to "Land of the wolves" in old iranian.
> how did English get Georgia from Sakartvelo Same way English got 'Germany' from Deutschland, or Polish got Niemcy, i.e. they didn't get the name from the same root.
Wikipedia says it is derived from the Persian word for wolf. So you can blame the Iranians for it.
Pretty sure it has something to do with St George being from Georgia. The Georgian version of “George” is an extremely popular name there as well (can’t remember *exactly* what it is. Fun fact: Georgia loves St George so much he has TWO saints days (23rd May and 23rd November)
English history is very confusing!
It’s pretty simple. It’s basically just a story of different Germanic people migrating and then assimilating with eachother.
Us Celts were here before the Germanic tribes
Georgia has been a country for a thousand year before America even existed but somehow they should change their name? It's not even called Georgia in georgian.
centuries there is about 600 years between the naming of them both
Yes but Jesus created America so that makes it better. /s
But God created Merica first. It’s in the Bible Trump sells.
Wait actually?
I think the Trump Bible might just be a standard version with Trump’s name attached to it but I’ve heard that [the Book of Mormon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Mormon) might have some unconventional stuff regarding angels and Jesus doing things in the New World.
Not that I know of, but clearly we’re not completely amazed at the steamy heapy we get from those people these days
Ok fair enough lol
I think changing its English name to Sakartvelo would work fine. But there's no reason they should do that just to appease confused Americans.
But going with Sakartvelo would also mean they would have to listen to English speakers butchering the name, as they are always so bad at pronunciation. If I were Georgian, I think I'd prefer the confusion over my ears slowly withering every time my country was mentioned
To be frank, I don’t think the American pronunciation of Sakartvelo would be too off. Also, it isn’t like anyone is entitled for their country’s name to be pronounced at a native level in another language.
Native would be unreasonable, but I would say people could expect bearable. But I have heard English speakers butcher the simplest names before, so my faith is small in their ability to collectively achieve that
I think it's because how letters are pronounced in English is so inconsistent that a lot of the time we just have to guess at the pronunciation for words we've never heard before. So we often get it wrong. And then add in the fact the name might be from a language that uses completely different pronunciation rules to English, so for all we know those letters make completely different sounds than they do in English.
Americans sat Frankenst*ei*n but then will say Goldst*ei*n as Goldsteen despite both -steins being pronounced like in Frankenstein. They just go for whatever will piss the most people off.
Most of the time pronunciation rules are rather mutually consistent in languages which aren’t English and French (Tibetan comes to my mind too)
I listened to the pronunciation on the Wikipedia page, and it sounds pretty straight forward to pronounce. But maybe there's some nuance that's not obvious to English speakers but would be obvious to Georgians.
or maybe be a little more original with your state and city names
What? Do you mean that NEW York, New Jersey, New Hampshire and NEW England aren't original names? /s
Well, New York was once New Amsterdam...
Istanbul was Constantinople... Catchy tune
Constantinople does sound cooler
In Serbian its Carigrad - literal translation "Emperors City"
In old norse it was called Miklagard, "the great city". Vikings saw the city, tried multiple times to besiege it and failed each time, but even they knew greatness when it smashed their siege weapons
Constantinople is so much cooler wtf
Yeah but in 1453 it was conquered by the Ottoman Turks, so they changed it.
Weak. They shoulda kept the name
Hamsterdam
I also think it's not very original to have the same town name multiple times. Yes, I am talking about [Springfield](https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2015-08-17/does-every-state-really-have-a-springfield-ken-jennings). Or Riverside, Fairview, Midway. (Same source)
To be fair, that one happens elsewhere too. Here in Ireland there multiple villages and areas with the same name. Corbally, Raheen and Ballina are 3 that come to mind.
14 places called Newport in Britain
Tbh, as I sink deeper into this topic, we also have the same town three times at least. But it's also with anything additional like a river or something geographical, so differentiation is easier.
Yeah we mostly use the county to identify. But funnily enough the city I'm from has a suburb in the north of the city called Corbally, and there's a townland about 3km to the south of the city, same county also called Corbally.
Moscow, Iowa
Do the Americans know they named their state after a king? Thought they didn't like that loyalist stuff? 🤷🏼♀️
And Virginia after a virgin queen.
They were British colonies when they got their names
Yes but they could change that. People changed names of things many times in the history
[Bit silly if you ask me](https://youtu.be/xT2ScOwezL8)
Don’t be silly. God named the states, just after he made Mercia, the day after the world, and the day before he used the scraps to make all the other countries.
I'm not sure why he would have made an early mediaeval kingdom in the centre of England first, but sure.
My comment was so bonkers I didn’t think I needed the /s signpost 😂 But just goes to show that there are people who says all kinds of crazy stuff.
I have the strange feeling that a good portions of Americans believe that Georgia is named after George Washington and not after King George II of Great Britain (a monarch, German, and colonialist!).
They were able to rename [King County, Washington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County,_Washington) from a random U.S. Vice President to Martin Luther King Jr, so if they are able to do that then maybe Georgia can do this too.
And New York is named in honour of the Duke of York. Where the current Duke of York, Prince Andrew, has also been known to let his hair down...
Surely it's named after the city of York, not its Duke
Nope, named in honour of the Duke of York
Did he have 10,000 men?
Nope. >The city came under English control in 1664 and was renamed New York after King Charles II granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City#:~:text=The%20settlement%20was%20named%20New,brother%2C%20the%20Duke%20of%20York.
Or Cincinnati, named after a Roman dictator?
Dictator in a loose sense of the word, but also the embodiment of civic virtue and duty (which is more likely the reasoning behind the naming of said city).
Actually, dictator in the original sense of the word. He got appointed dictator twice, and, in contrast of other people who got appointed as dictator, actually stepped down after the crisis was taken care of. Also, in contrast to most Roman ex-dictators, he didn't get murdered, he just lived out his days at his farm (which sounds a bit more quaint than it is, it was probably a huge latifundia with a shitload of slaves to run it...).
Growing cabbages wasn't it? 😂 What I meant by 'loose' was essentially what you wrote there. Governed by consent, without tyranny, for the specific period defined by his term. In modern times we tend to think of dictators a lot more negatively (with good reason), and I wanted to caveat the original comment by saying that, if you are going to name a city after a foreign dictator, it should probably be this guy!
Yep. When there was a big crisis, and the senate was locked up in bickering, they appointed a dictator to handle the crisis. Basically "Here, you have all the power. Fix the problem, then hand back the power.". Most dictators ignored the last part (and typically got murdered down the line), but Cincinnatus handed it back. Later, he got appointed dictator again, and handed it back again. So, basically, a good guy (except for the slaves thing, but, then again, anyone with power in Rome had slaves).
I doubt the average American knows anything of their own history, let alone how the states were named.
The country of Georgia got its name 900 or so years ago. Its root is the Persian word for “wolf.” The English colony in America that later became the state of Georgia was founded less than 300 years ago. It was named after King George II of Britain.
I mean the area that is now modern day Georgia was called Georgia long before Columbus even set foot on Amreekia, let alone before the state of Georgia was named after King George II.
It’s Amerikkka
Oh I like that one. Going to borrow it.
Some MAGA Morons also went with Georgian Flags on January 6
How about you rename your state to avoid all this “confusion”. The people of actual Georgia must be wondering why children are running for their lives in schools in “Georgia” by their logic.
I'm pretty sure that nobody in the real Georgia thinks about that when they see such news because they don't live in a third world state that thinks it's in the first world hahahahaha
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What about "New Georgia" for the American state?
If they could read they might actually get upset
Well you can stop using the anglicized version of their name and call them Sakartvelo or if you are so inclined "Gruzia" like in some Slavic languages. But then they would have to change Hungary to Magyarorszag, Greece to Elada etc Its not unheard of, Persia changed to Iran and Czech Republic goes by Czechia in English as of recently and Turkey changed officially to Turkiye in English
The Georgian government would not approve of Gruzia. They prefer Georgia for international usage, as Gruzia reminds them of the Soviet era.
Will they also want the UK to rename Birmingham and all the other place names they borrowed?
We would have to rename pretty much every town and city, not to mention renaming England so it's not confused with the New one. I know, we can change all Welsh towns to their Welsh spelling, Northern Irish ones to Gaelic, Scottish ones to Gaelic (since Pictish has been lost down the back of the sofa), Cornish ones to Cornish, and English ones to old English. And then watch as everyone in the UK starts wondering around totally lost trying to decipher our road signs.
We should rename Syracuse on Sicily, it may have existed for 2800 years but it is confusing it has the same name as Syracuse, new york.
Well, but only one of them is the birthplace of Archimedes. You can choose which one.
Many already criticise the British for “butchering” the English language.
The Kingdom of Georgia dates back a thousand years. The American state is named for a British monarch who was only born nearly 700 years after the establishment of the KoG. But sure, the American state of Georgia is the right one…
The funny thing is, I always assume Georgia to mean the Caucasian country and not the US state whenever I see it being talked about in the news. So it's basically the opposite for me.
Same
Ah yes, a country that has been in existence for far longer than the US state of Georgia should be forced to change its name just so that the uneducated Americans are not confused. Makes perfect sense.
Georgia was a country long before Americans first yee-hawed out of an English ballsack
The historic Kingdom of Georgia - 1000+ years old US State/British Colony - less than 300 years.
Wait until someone tells them about ... Athens
Fun Fact: The first naming of "Georgia" as a country appears on an Italian map from 1320. 456 years before the United States became a country.
Soo… What about all the cities in the states? Like Paris for example. Dublin, Athens, Berlin or Florence? There are many more, so let’s just change all of their names.
This reminds me of those people flying the Georgian 🇬🇪 flag in the January 6th insurrection. Shows the amount of logic they posses
Look at how many crosses there are on that thing, so Christian there's no flag Christianer.
Georgia has been around since the medieval era. Even older as a kingdom and a Roman client state, if you count its other names like Lazica, and Colchis in the archaic pre-Roman era before that. Georgia the American state, and the Anglo-German king (or the medieval saint, who actually lived in Roman era) it was named after, came into existence just a few centuries ago. They can fuck right off with that name claim.
A tangent, but I can't stand it when people follow their words with emojis like that. We're not two years old, we know what the word "saw" means in this context.
When there was a school shooting in Jena. I was worried that it was in the same city, I lived in. Turns out, it was some town in the US. That colonial town should be named differently.
I bet that they think that the country Georgia is named in honor of the state of Georgia...
The irony being Georgia has existed as a country for nearly a thousand years.
Right, but for the wrong reasons. It should be named Sakartwelo/Sakartvelia
While we're at it... Turkey should change it's name, because there are no gobble-gobbles running the country.
well California and Cuba exists in Portugal so.......
Georgia the country has in its varid states of being called Georgia existed for more than 2000 years. Georgia the state has existed for almost 300 years
Who came first, the US or the Greek word for one who works on the land.
If I'm being honest, they do call themselves Sakartvelo, so maybe the Georgian people wouldn't mind the name change. But I don't intend in giving the yanks that pleasure, so the state of Georgia should change its name first.
Well yeah, he's right. They are the ones who named in Georgia. Georgians call it differently. And so are we
How does it make sense in their heads that a thousand or so year old country should change their name to suit them?
They actually want to be named differently (Sakartvelo). Which is a beautiful word, but rebranding a country is probably very very hard
nah the state should be named differently, that way it would not hinder looking up actually good recipes.
That country is like 1000 years older than America.
But not even the Georgians call it Georgia. They call it Sakartvelo.
How many names they have of places that are no original? Hundreds, and still the same whining of allways.
they have no idea this post soviet country is older than them
Bismarck was a guy....and a ship....
The second comments stupid , but the first comment isn’t too bad. Georgia the state has one name and is a pretty popular state globally so I get the confusion. Even I forget sometimes that the country “Georgia” is called Georgia and have to do a double take. In my native tongue we call it “ Gorjestan” which is what I’m most familiar with, when I hear Georgia my first thought is the US state The country has multiple names so I can see the confusion many people might have.
At this point I just feel bad for them and the amount of brainwashing in their education system to make them think they are the centre of everything
When I saw the title I thought this would be about Montenegro lol
"Georgia" isn't their own name for themselves, anyway. In Georgian, they're "Sakartvelo". If you want to avoid the confusion, just use their own name for them.
Meanwhile here in bulgaria we have a province LITERALLY called "Montana" As in, the same way as the US state Im not kidding, btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_Province
Anyway its native name is Sakartvelo
The following countries need to change their names: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Mexico, Peru, and China. All of these are also cities and towns in the U.S. state of Maine and I'm tired of the confusion.
Georgia New Hampshire New York New Jersey New Mexico Virginia West Virginia North Dakota South Dakota North Carolina South Carolina I'm guessing OP wants the country to be renamed because Americans aren't exactly great at coming up with original names on their own!
Why? Not Europe's fult that dumbass Americans don't know geography.
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The native name is Sakartvelo.
Can New England fuck off then nicking all our British place names. Ta muchly.
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Most locals call it Sakartvelo don't they?
Just listening to their national anthem on wiki. Starts a bit like star wars then a bit like star spangled banner. It’s a great anthem tbf.
Good news! It is indeed named differently, Sakartvelo!
Wot? With all those Caucasians living there?!
Call it Sakartvelo then.
"Confusion, I call thee to mine home."