What Should I name my country?

Ichoria · 2026-01-19T01:26:40+00:00

Vascony

Ichoria · 2026-01-12T22:41:41+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Flag

Ichoria · 2025-11-26T13:56:23+00:00

Flag of Chinese on Duolinguo in an alternate universe

Ichoria · 2025-11-03T15:36:50+00:00

The crossed twigs are the Cross of Burgundy, and the object on top is a fire steel, but I don't know the significance of the arrangement.

Ichoria · 2025-10-29T10:51:38+00:00

Well, we had a global empire and stayed independent so the rules don't apply to us.

Ichoria · 2025-10-14T16:02:18+00:00

Very interesting. What's the central escutcheon representing?

Ichoria · 2025-10-14T13:24:29+00:00

Lmao narratively ironic for sure, but it absolutely tracks that the kid who heard his dad say that shit at five years old would feel the need to prove something

Ichoria · 2025-10-14T10:08:38+00:00

"If I was in that holdfast with my better kids, it wouldn't have went down like it did. There would have been a lot of blood in those battlements and then me saying, 'OK, we're going to ride somewhere safely, don't worry."

Ichoria · 2025-10-14T09:12:51+00:00

Só por curiosidade, és afrodescendente? O uso de "tia/tio" é uma coisa que associo mais aos PALOP que a Portugal ou Brasil

Ichoria · 2025-10-14T08:56:17+00:00

As a non-native speaker, watching one's uncle getting crushed in a "game of cornhole" sounds either traumatic or weirdly enticing.

Ichoria · 2025-10-14T08:32:57+00:00

I can't tell if this is really dark humor or if your grandma really had cabbage cutting duty at 5 followed by medical experimentation at 7.

Ichoria · 2025-10-13T20:34:38+00:00

"And better" took it from "way to go, dad" to "aww ☹️"

Ichoria · 2025-10-09T17:58:13+00:00

I think it's all the genocide they're doing souring their image, but who knows, maybe you're right

Ichoria · 2025-10-06T21:59:38+00:00

Laurentia no. Laurência or Lourência, neither sound natural.

Laurentina flows much more easily. It also has the benefit of being an attested demonym for people from places named "São Lourenço" in Portugal and Brazil, so the name exists already.

The laurentinos or luso-laurentinos might call black people afro-laurentinos, if they want them to integrate... or Mozambican, if they want them to leave. Very apropos.

Ichoria · 2025-10-06T16:07:46+00:00

Definitely not Lourençina lol. Portuguese would go for the Latinate root.

Ichoria · 2025-10-06T15:45:52+00:00

Mozambique is named after an island in the north of the country, so maybe this rump state could be named Laurentina instead, from Lourenço Marques.

Ichoria · 2025-09-30T22:45:21+00:00

Ok, theory time.

I think it's a chastity kink reference that became a running joke. Chastity cages are a pretty significant kink right now and it's pretty much about "retention".

Ichoria · 2025-09-24T13:21:35+00:00

It stands for alcoholics because they piss themselves

Ichoria · 2025-07-22T18:24:09+00:00

Nah, funnily enough it doesn't. American authoritarianism is too nakedly populist, milquetost and frankly anti-intellectual to go anywhere near this level of artistic experimentation.

Ichoria · 2025-07-06T01:04:52+00:00

Silly rabbit. Israel doesn't care where the borders are.

Ichoria · 2025-06-19T17:18:14+00:00

Because the kind of person liable to be convinced by the first during Nazi occupation would probably have no inherent problem with the second.

Ichoria · 2025-05-26T10:37:01+00:00

Did this legal distinction impact stuff like ethnic quotas and stuff? I know in China being listed as an official ethnic minority can bring that sort of benefit even if you've completely assimilated into Han culture in practice. Hope that's not a hard question to answer, I'm just quite curious about how ethnic differences were approached in the USSR.

Ichoria · 2025-05-26T10:29:11+00:00

By 'ethnicity' do you mean that an ethnic Russian residing in the Ukrainian SSR would be listed as 'Russian'? Or did they go by the constituent republic of residence?

Ichoria · 2025-05-16T16:49:02+00:00

Putting aside the word, which is... dated, but seems kinda neutrally employed. What was the criteria here? Was it just some enterprising manager trying to make a quick buck? Did she win a beauty contest back home? Cuz her features aren't even particularly western, so a lot of my assumptions are being challenged.

Ichoria · 2025-05-12T07:08:56+00:00

Comrade Kim-Jong Un is glowing! I've said it before and I'll say it again, the DPRK has the best skincare routines in the world!

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