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[Anonymous No.]

The Japanese call it Nipon but everyone else calls it Japan. Why do we call it Japan when its Nipon?

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[Anonymous No.]

How do languages work

[Anonymous No.]

The Germans call it Deutschland but everyone else calls it Germany. Why do we call it Germany when its Deutschland?

[Anonymous No.]

For the same reason everyone used to call Iran "Persia."

[Anonymous No.]

Because they get butthurt when we call them nips.

That's like Britons being offended when we call them Brits. Or Australians when called Aussies, etc

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

probably the same reason they call "proportions" "style" when we call style "style"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_Japan

[Wikipedia No.]

The English word for Japan came to the West from early trade routes. The early Mandarin or possibly Wu Chinese (吳語) word for Japan was recorded by Marco Polo as Cipangu. In modern Shanghainese, a Wu dialect, the pronunciation of characters 日本 'Japan' is Zeppen [zəʔpən]; in Wu, the character 日 has two pronunciations, informal (白讀?) [niʔ] and formal (文讀?) [zəʔ]. (In some southern Wu dialects, 日本 is pronounced [niʔpən], similar to its pronunciation in Japanese.) The old Malay word for Japan, Jepang (now spelled Jepun in Malaysia, though still spelled Jepang in Indonesia), was borrowed from a Chinese language, and this Malay word was encountered by Portuguese traders in Malacca in the 16th century. It is thought the Portuguese traders were the first to bring the word to Europe. It was first recorded in English in a 1565 letter spelled Giapan.[15]

[Anonymous No.]

Well, my name for you is "bitch," but I imagine you call yourself something different.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6399258
No they don't