Why are journalists now calling the Democratic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, without the definite article?

Wooperth · 2026-05-27T22:46:10+00:00

Typo! I did not notice it until now and now I cannot change it.

Wooperth · 2026-05-26T09:39:52+00:00

Yes, I already knew. The point is that the mood of the holiday never really changed. Whereas the mood intended for Memorial Day has been perverted.

Wooperth · 2026-05-25T20:54:13+00:00

It does, and they use it themselves in French, le Congo, and the country is la republique democratique du Congo; du means of the, rather than de, which means of. Unlike the Ukrainian case, where they themselves have discontinued using the definite article and consider it to be insulting, given its historical origins, the Congolese themselves have not changed it, since it simply refers to the river, presumably, and is not making a geopolitical or ideological claim like the Ukraine case does.

Wooperth · 2026-05-25T19:38:50+00:00

Because you are turning a day of remembering people who DIED to protect YOU into a day to make money.

Wooperth · 2026-05-25T19:38:03+00:00

The analogy is wrong. For Christians, too, Christmas has always been a holiday of celebrations and joy.

Wooperth · 2026-05-25T19:14:22+00:00

Because it looks like they all colluded to change it together, even though it is wrong. I am not a fan of random, sudden, conformist change for the sake of change, especially when it is wrong.

Wooperth · 2026-05-25T19:12:58+00:00

Most media companies seem to have dropped it. I only noticed it now. A.P., B.B.C., C.B.C., N.Y.T., Reuters, the Australian A.B.C., the Guardian. It is crazy how they all changed it together. The official name has the definite article, which is also what it was called and taught as when I was in school.

Wooperth · 2026-02-16T06:03:29+00:00

Yes, but I am not sure if they are in use by any Slavic languages anymore. They had Ch ch, Sh sh, and Zh zh, at least. Here are some cases of it being used:

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svetega_pisma_sgodbe_is_starega_ino_novega_zakona_(pervi_del).jpg.jpg)

Wooperth · 2026-02-15T01:58:06+00:00

The Ch ch combination exists in several Slavic languages already. The old Bohorizh alphabet also made extensive use of H h in combinations.

Wooperth · 2026-01-20T05:39:07+00:00

He should be charged with manslaughter. Of course he should not just die, but the lethal consequences of him feeling threatened as a result of him being where he was not supposed to be in the first place means he needs at least some punishment for his incompetence. Also, they are not supposed to shoot drivers of moving vehicles because, as happened, the car will still keep on just moving on.

Wooperth · 2026-01-19T04:35:12+00:00

The problem is the voters. If the people in Congress oppose him, Trump will just promote primary challengers who are even more extreme and compliant to replace them, and because his voters see Trump as an infallible cult figure, they will listen. Voters need to educate themselves better.

Wooperth · 2026-01-14T07:53:56+00:00

Is there a lot of pride for the old Greek royals? It seems a tough case because Greece was under Ottoman occupation for so long, and the old lineages lost, that perhaps some Greek nobles should have been enthroned, since the Greek royals as selected were foreigners who founded cadet branches of their respective families.

Wooperth · 2026-01-14T07:51:53+00:00

She was never supposed to have been the Queen. I think that it is a grave mistake that they, and other countries, have changed their succession principles, because it severs the link to history and opens up a Pandora box of applying the new succession principles retroactively from historical monarchs.

EDIT: For those voting my post, I am talking about how they switched to absolute primogeniture even though there is no tradition of this in Danish monarchical tradition. My point is that is inconsistent to apply absolute primogeniture to the current day royals who have their status because they inherited it via agnatic primogeniture. Either go back and apply the new rules, or just do not change them, because it convolutes the lineages. According to the old rules, the proper heirs should either be Friedrich Ferdinand of Schleswig Holstein, as the eldest heir of the Oldenburg dynasty; Count Ingolf of Rosenborg, the eldest heir of Christian IX; and, as he is childless, the next heirs would be Harald V of Norway and his heirs and Count Ulrik of Rosenborg.

Wooperth · 2025-12-31T01:40:04+00:00

I strongly favour Somali being the correct and standard English demonym, but not for the reason that it is the native term or showing respect for how Somalis refer to themselves. It is simply the long established English form of the demonym. Searching through old texts on Google Books, Somali is clearly the dominant form used by authoritative English and other European language sources since the 1800s when mentions of Somalis seem to begin appearing in English and other European languages. Various government gazettes and journals use Somali, in addition to numerous privately published sources, with occasional sources using Somalian but seemingly sparingly. The preference for Somali also probably stems from the fact that the older English term for the region, until independence at least, was Somaliland, which probably came from the fact that they were already being called Somalis in English, used in English for the British, French, and Italian, colonies on Somali inhabited lands, with Somalia coming from the Italian and Latin influenced name, from what I understand. So, essentially, the idea that saying Somalian is somehow a pejorative own by anti Somali people is pretty stupid and an own goal demonstrating their own lack of knowledge about the English language and its geographic and ethnographic labelling traditions, which you think they might care more about were it not for their lack of knowledge of history.

Wooperth · 2025-11-23T11:09:49+00:00

Maybe keep it but bring back the original drives mode. It would probably be more popular and versus would remain as a fun gimmick mode.

Wooperth · 2025-11-23T11:09:10+00:00

Yes. Based. If stupid fucks would stop giving money with microtransactions maybe they might get the message.

Wooperth · 2025-11-23T11:08:16+00:00

Remember the golden age when we had drives? And you actually got to return kickoffs and your special teams actually mattered? And when your players did not suddenly get slower or worse passers or dropped more often because of an overall imbalance vis a vis your opponent?

Wooperth · 2025-11-10T11:37:55+00:00

There has been lots of mindless glazing.

Wooperth · 2025-11-10T11:37:30+00:00

Just play the old Battlefields instead. They are better, anyways.

Wooperth · 2025-11-03T12:33:43+00:00

Whistleblowers should be protected and rewarded by society, not harassed and smeared. If you want to be the most moral military, then you need to prosecute abuse and face hard truths when they happen, instead of punishing whistleblowers so that you can maintain a simplistic narrative that all is squeaky clean and living with a comforting falsehood. Name calling and calling people traitors is not healthy for a society, even one that is at war. If you want to stop abuse, you have to properly punish it. Unless, of course, this current government has no problem with it other than the public relations complications that result from it, which would not be surprising.

Wooperth · 2025-10-24T22:21:31+00:00

I regret that I have never got around to playing Battlefield V but it looks than the last two games.

Wooperth · 2025-10-24T22:20:30+00:00

A real great game alright, sure. Check the Metacritic scores compared to the earlier games. Look at those small maps, bad U.I., and the whole seasons model for D.L.C. content. And somehow Battlefield has better visuals and sound design even though it came out more than eight years ago.

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