Comments on: Those who refuse to learn from history http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/05/26/those-who-refuse-to-learn-from-history/ Challenging the Zeitgeist Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:41:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Heather http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/05/26/those-who-refuse-to-learn-from-history/#comment-12834 Heather Tue, 27 May 2008 18:33:46 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/?p=1573#comment-12834 Alun About the pedantry, I was basing my false assumption on it being pretty much the name for German as used in French, Portuguese and Spanish. BBCwebsite comments can be depressing enough , anyway, but that news forum really does manage to present idiocy in handy bite-sized chunks. I hope there's not going to be a new GCSE in it. Alun

About the pedantry, I was basing my false assumption on it being pretty much the name for German as used in French, Portuguese and Spanish.

BBCwebsite comments can be depressing enough , anyway, but that news forum really does manage to present idiocy in handy bite-sized chunks. I hope there’s not going to be a new GCSE in it.

]]> By: Alun http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/05/26/those-who-refuse-to-learn-from-history/#comment-12831 Alun Tue, 27 May 2008 10:44:04 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/?p=1573#comment-12831 (Pedant)Actually while the Italian for 'Germany' is 'Germania', the word for 'German' is 'Tedesco'. You may be confused with Spanish <em>Alemán</em>.(/Pedant) It's one of those strange things that various European countries have wildly different names for Tyskland, Německo, Saksa, Deutschland. Incidentally if you want to get your xenophobia in well organised chunks, I've found you click on a profile on BBC's Have Your Say to browse gibbering idiocy on one convenient page. e.g. http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/profile.jspa?userID=12068592 There's even an RSS feed. Joy! (Pedant)Actually while the Italian for ‘Germany’ is ‘Germania’, the word for ‘German’ is ‘Tedesco’. You may be confused with Spanish Alemán.(/Pedant) It’s one of those strange things that various European countries have wildly different names for Tyskland, Německo, Saksa, Deutschland.

Incidentally if you want to get your xenophobia in well organised chunks, I’ve found you click on a profile on BBC’s Have Your Say to browse gibbering idiocy on one convenient page. e.g. http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/profile.jspa?userID=12068592 There’s even an RSS feed. Joy!

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