I mean:

English

Russian

French? (how did this happen? France --> French?!?)

Chinese

And someone from Afghanistan is an Afghan? How did the word get shorter not longer? 🤔

Also, why is a person from India called an Indian, but the language is called Hindi? This breaks my brain…

Philippines --> Filipino? They just saw the “Ph” and decided to use an “F”? 🤔

Okay idk how language even works anymore…

[This is an open discusssion thread on languages and their quirks…]

  • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.chEnglish
    1·
    14 hours ago

    The way I always remembered の is that it’s much like ’s in English. In other words 日の本 would be“sun’s origin.”

    At first I tried to remember it like a reversed Spanish de but that didn’t work because I got it confused with で.