zlatiah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days ago"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronymmessage-squaremessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1153arrow-down110
arrow-up1143arrow-down1message-square"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronymzlatiah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square60fedilink
minus-squareChais@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up34·2 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