iāll never understand why we donāt call countries the names they actually call themselvesĀ
like, i know this is a weeaboo-sounding example, but letās start with Japan. They call themselves Nippon or Nihon depending onā¦ i guess, the speakerās accent??? or their level of formality while speaking??? I dunno. But we still called them Zipangu for like a few hundred years. And now we call them Japan.Ā
All because Marco Polo asked someone in China about that island over there and they saidĀ āoh thatās Cipanguā and Marco Polo was likeĀ āOh, Zipangu, cool.ā And then he went back to Italy and saidĀ āYāALL THEREāS THIS DOPE-ASS ISLAND CALLED ZIPANGUā and people back in Italy were likeĀ āAn island called Giappone? Dope.āĀ
And this pattern of people mishearing people kept repeating until we got to āJapan.āĀ
And we still call them Japan even though we know better. Because fuck you, Marco Polo asked the wrong person 500 years ago and misheard them and weāre sticking to that, I guess.Ā
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Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.
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āApologize? Over my rich, hot, dead body.ā
ā Draco Malfoy, when asked to apologize
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About to show these boys how we do it.
CAPTAIN MARVEL
(2019), dir. Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck.
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HELL YEA!!!!HELL YEA!!! HELL YE
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