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Re:Science shows cheese can make wine taste better by pklausler on Thursday October 20, 2016 @01:32PM (#12754328)
I don't know about your language, but in English, the names we use for other countries, cities, and languages are often ridiculously different from what their native residents and speakers call them.

(And it's not just English, on further thought. Is there any language whose name for the country that calls itself Deutschland looks anything like "Deutschland"? And why are they all different from each other?)

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Re:Science shows cheese can make wine taste better by tremon on Thursday October 20, 2016 @02:27PM (#12754869)
Is there any language whose name for the country that calls itself Deutschland looks anything like "Deutschland"?

There is: it's called "Duitsland" in Dutch (and no, "Dutch" does not refer to the language spoken in Deutschland ;)

However, I'm not aware of any language that refers to Greece by its native name ( Ἑλλάς, "Hellas").

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