JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 26 days agoSince America's namesake Amerigo Vespucci was an immigrant, what should the United States of America be renamed to? (no wrong answers)message-squaremessage-square159fedilinkarrow-up1351
arrow-up1351message-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 · 26 days agomessage-square159fedilink
minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·25 days ago“Vinland” is what the Vikings who discovered the land named it. Not a bad name. Were I to name it today I’d pick some foreign language version of “The Land of Pulling Up the Ladder” or “The Land of Crabs in a Bucket”.
minus-squareOctaviaMeowzlylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·24 days agohow about turkish, Yukarıya Çekilen Merdivenlerin Ülkesi (Land Of Pulling Up The Ladder)
“Vinland” is what the Vikings who discovered the land named it. Not a bad name.
Were I to name it today I’d pick some foreign language version of “The Land of Pulling Up the Ladder” or “The Land of Crabs in a Bucket”.
how about turkish, Yukarıya Çekilen Merdivenlerin Ülkesi (Land Of Pulling Up The Ladder)