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  • #16
    excuse me, what is in French?

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    • #17
      Switserland. HE is Greece. (I think)


      I thought that GR is greece...
      urgh.NSFW

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      • #18
        Originally posted by alva


        But...but...but those are in Fench!!! OMG!!! teh H0rr0r!eleven!&11
        No they aren't. In French it would've been A and SU.
        Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

        It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
        The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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        • #19
          No no no Greece is Hellas, thus HE.
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          • #20
            Confederatio Helvetica - latin

            Deutschland - German (native)

            United Kingdom - English (native)

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            • #21
              Sorry, it should be HR anyway...
              Speaking of Erith:

              "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Ecthelion
                let's just use the car signs

                D for Germany, CH for Switzerland, BIH etc...
                Better idea.

                The American two letter abbreviations, which also exist for Canadian provinces, are not abritrary. They're official postal abbreviations. Thats why everyone knows them.

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                • #23
                  Let's stick to 2 letter-abbreviations. That looks neat.

                  Germany should be DE.
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                  • #24
                    You have got to have a common policy - Either it's the the country's own pronounciation of itself, or it's the English one. If we go by the countries' own languages. Personally I think the former is better.
                    urgh.NSFW

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                    • #25
                      Yes, and the Europeans here keep mixing up automobile signs with official EU abbreviations. GR is Greece's letter symbol on automobiles, HE is the official EU abbreviation for e.g. customs code purposes.

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Colon
                        Let's stick to 2 letter-abbreviations. That looks neat.

                        Germany should be DE.
                        We could use the online country suffixes.

                        DE - Germany
                        UK - UK
                        UA - Ukraine
                        SE - Sweden
                        FR - France

                        and so on.
                        Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

                        It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
                        The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Last Conformist

                          No they aren't. In French it would've been A and SU.
                          Hey, dammit, I always thought it was in French, not sure why.
                          Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
                          Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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                          • #28
                            We could use the online country suffixes.


                            No. I am not from goddamn Illinois.
                            urgh.NSFW

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                            • #29
                              Maybe we should use this: http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm

                              [edit] LC beat me to it.
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                              • #30
                                We could also go with letter symbols on aeroplanes, where for instance Denmark is OY.

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