zlatiah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days ago"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronymmessage-squaremessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1136arrow-down110
arrow-up1126arrow-down1message-square"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronymzlatiah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square53fedilink
minus-squareChais@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up26·2 days agoTo detract from the confusion the European Union is Union Européenne (UE) in French.
minus-squarezlatiah@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 days agoI thought it would be so funny if any of the EU employees would go to a bar in Brussels (majority French-speaking) and have an aneurysm explaining what they do to a local in broken French. Not that it would ever happen… but it would be funny
To detract from the confusion the European Union is Union Européenne (UE) in French.
I thought it would be so funny if any of the EU employees would go to a bar in Brussels (majority French-speaking) and have an aneurysm explaining what they do to a local in broken French. Not that it would ever happen… but it would be funny