JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 5 months agoSince America's namesake Amerigo Vespucci was an immigrant, what should the United States of America be renamed to? (no wrong answers)message-squaremessage-square171fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareSince America's namesake Amerigo Vespucci was an immigrant, what should the United States of America be renamed to? (no wrong answers)JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square171fedilink
minus-squareTug@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoWhatever the Cherokee word for “stolen land” is.
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoTruly the English specialty: stealing stuff from other people.
minus-squareBdtrngl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoWhat’s the only reason the pyramids are still in Egypt? They’re too big to fit in the British museum.
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoToo big to fit English ships you mean ;)
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoThey did, then Britain came along and pulled a deepseek on them :)
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoIt was America at the time They had a whole revolutionary war over Britain blocking their expansion
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoOr, you know, the thousands of other languages that existed. Sorry, distilling everything indigenous down to the Cherokee is a pet peeve of mine.
minus-squarechildOfMagenta@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agohttps://indigamerica.blogspot.com/
Whatever the Cherokee word for “stolen land” is.
Truly the English specialty: stealing stuff from other people.
What’s the only reason the pyramids are still in Egypt? They’re too big to fit in the British museum.
Too big to fit English ships you mean ;)
Spain owned more
They did, then Britain came along and pulled a deepseek on them :)
It was America at the time
They had a whole revolutionary war over Britain blocking their expansion
Or, you know, the thousands of other languages that existed.
Sorry, distilling everything indigenous down to the Cherokee is a pet peeve of mine.
https://indigamerica.blogspot.com/