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  • Okay the question should be why do countries have to do this and why is it so hard not to?

  • I really want to know. Cuz America is a Poser?

  • Glad you mentioned endonym/exonym are you be any chance a linguist or do you study/have you studied linguistics?

  • Thank you for this comment, I was aware, sorry for not adding as much detail as I needed to get the right answer. Seems I asked the question wrong. Wouldn't it help to learn these things in general less, make them available to learn at younger ages? If not already, because it would be grand.

  • I know, I think I forgot to mention I understand that other countries do this, sorry for specifying America as I cannot speak for other countries as I am not from them nor have I been to them. This was about cultural awareness, and the fact that by learning difficult things at a younger age, 'USA' would be better. They are already teaching things younger and younger as we advance as a society, why not add this? I hear young kids learning more and more difficult things. But making it easier or harder is less the question, but rather advancing and making people smarter and more cultured.

  • I would love to learn that. Even as a kid I probably would have loved it. However I understand the difficulty.

  • This is the correct answer. But I agree with the part it is unfortunate that they didn't respect and America doesn't respect enough to say España or 'la France' hopefully I am spelling that right.

  • Either way. They either were both not planned, both were or one might not have been. Not many people say, I can't wait, I hope I have twins. There are some tho, I went to high school with someone where twins ran in the family and they were excited to also have two different sets of them. But most of the time you are planning for one, and you are surprised when there are two in the womb. This should be a good thing but children would still try to guess and could fight about it, they can fight about anything. And sometimes names are picked out before even trying to have kids. One for a boy and one for a girl etc. unfortunately, it is the break up of the fight that perplexes me. "You were both planned/unplanned" gets nowhere. When someone starts trying there is no guarantee either way what will happen. What do you say? Sorry I wish I spoke Español.

  • Yeah, then they should make us pronounce all the countries correctly. My point exactly.

  • They should use phonetics and I am mostly talking about the country names not all words. English does use Türkiye now, I hope they do for most. But when there are pictures or a completely different language there are at least a lot of ways to illustrate pronunciation using phonetics, even of foreign language. America's education system might be improved in this way. Instead of no child left behind. No child left untaught. Then they wouldn't be behind, aside from learning disabilities and other disabilities.

  • How I don't remember this episode of Rick and Morty I audibly just laughed after watching the Clip

  • Less to do with birth order and more to do with wanting to have one and ending up with two, or three....or eight. But they might still fight over who was. Siblings can be cruel.

  • Mom: "Hey Brock, did you bring your brother, Brick home from school?"

    Brock: "Can't we send him somewhere?"

    Mom: Brock!!!

    (In all honesty, this was not my idea, just a thought that popped into my head after seeing something random about it.)

  • I guess that makes sense. Since you crash with them and end up with little.

  • Oh, no. But glad I am not the one who bought it. I bought the Dragonball Z ones tho. They were right next to it.

  • Me to my wife "Hey, Hun, you think you have triplets in the cards. I want a Ferrari when I retire. "