Re: Liking German

Quoting daniel andreasson <danielandreasson@...>:

> Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
>
> > Frank Valoczy wrote:
> > > Czechia is quite commonly used in English; I use it myself.
>
> > And others "think it would be understood". Well, I'll better
> > do what I can to make it commonly used ...
>
> I actually went to Czechia this last weekend for some days of
> vacation. So I met a lot of [tSECIS] people. :) The official website
> of the Czech Tourist Authority is called www.visitczechia.cz. OTOH,
> it says "Welcome to Czech Republic" there too.
Weird.  This must be one of those things that Continentals
have made up thinking it was proper English, kinda like
German "das Handy" (="cellphone") which would probably not
be understood by any English speaker anywhere.

==============================
Thomas Wier <trwier@...>

"If a man demands justice, not merely as an abstract concept,
but in setting up the life of a society, and if he holds, further,
that within that society (however defined) all men have equal rights,
then the odds are that his views, sooner rather than later, are going
to set something or someone on fire." Peter Green, in _From Alexander
to Actium_, on Spartan king Cleomenes III