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The official name for Fontaine in simplified Chinese is 枫丹, which breaks down as “Fēng-dān”, which to the best of my translation abilities stands for “Red Maple”, rather than anything to do with the law. Did they came up with the English or Chinese names first? If it was a purposeful play on words, would they not carry it back into Chinese if the English name came first? 🤷‍♂️

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I’m not a Chinese speaker myself, but even I can tell this is not quite what’s going on.

For clarity, Mandarin is spoken, the written characters are simply Chinese. Characters have different pronunciations based on the Chinese language.

The full name in Chinese characters is 法兰西共和国, of which 法国 are the first and last characters.

Taking literal Google translations of these:

• 法 - Law
• 兰 - Orchid
• 西 - West
• 共 - Common
• 和 - and (conjugation)
• 国 - country

So we can already see that a literal translation of the characters is not really super helpful as it would be the Western Common Lawful Orchid Country? Of course we all know France is famed for Orchids??

Here is where things break down a bit, as the Mandarin pronunciation of these characters apparently is: “Fǎlánxī gònghéguó”, which some users on Quora helpfully point out that “Fǎlánxī” is the transliteration of “France” in Mandarin. Coupled with taking just the first and last characters, you get “Fà-guó”, which is a bit like calling the “United States of America” the “States” for brevity purposes. Each sound must have a character and that character may have a meaning itself. So, that these sounds happens to back translate into “Law Country” is more an accident of translation rather than France being famously law abiding.

The flip side of this is the Samurai Pizza Cats, where they completely rewrote the dialogue to make the English version way more entertaining.

It’s basically this IMO

LEGO is Danish.

Similar gag but actually from Top Gear

A fair hypothesis, but can you substantiate it?

A phone in a region with rock or ice flow might be grinded down into fine sand within hundreds of years. A smartphone touching lava will be burned to crisp within minutes

A Nokia 3310 on the other hand would survive all of these without a scratch. 🙃

I can’t answer for America, but generally in democracies you get two and only two parties.

Your answer is both incredible specific to the UK and subtly incorrect. I don’t quite have the time to write a full rebuttal, but the more egregious of errors is this one:

The Liberals were the radicals, the party of industry and progress and free markets and who cares who it hurts as long as it’s the future.

One of the core tenets of liberalism is the harm principle. Sure progress is important but so is not harming anyone. Your post seems to equate only socialism with bringing good to British society, when that quite simply is just not true, and refutable. The Labour Party in the UK quite successfully adopted a lot of the items on the liberal agenda, such as gender equality.

The FPTP system is quite poisonous to the political debate in the UK as the natural tendency that only one of two parties can dominate and thus removes all nuance and creates toxic tribalism.

Try this one. Maybe your browser or app doesn’t deal with the quote characters.

The negative option is that it’s a “no quarter” flag.

Oh, yikes. https://www.biscaynetimes.com/viewpoint/the-‘no-quarter’-flag-and-its-threat-to-america/

For those unaware further reading on this is the Southern Strategy.

I always thought Hyundai was off brand Honda

No, HMC’s history is a bit more complicated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Motor_Company and has more of a historical association with Mitsubishi, particularly for drivetrains.

There have been several badge engineered Hondas like the Rover 800 series

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The retrofiring of engines brought it closer to the Moon’s surface, now to 170 km x 4313 km.

For reference, the ISS’s height is ~413 km above Earth.

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