Argentina withdraws from Falklands agreement.

[Video Mixdown]

Originally Posted by Marcantilan

And the English Channel is the "Canal de la Mancha" for the Spanish, even when England (and yes, the weather) defeated the Invincible Armada in 1588. And so on and so forth.
According to the UN guidelines, the name Falklands / Malvinas or Malvinas / Falklands (depending if the main text is in English or Spanish) is correct.

Nobody cares what others call the English Channel, but the islands are not a stretch of water, they are somebody's home and they have the right to self-determination.

[Ninthace]

Originally Posted by Video Mixdown

Nobody cares what others call the English Channel, but the islands are not a stretch of water, they are somebody's home and they have the right to self-determination.

And what other people refer to them as. makes not a ha'porth difference to that.

[Video Mixdown]

Originally Posted by Ninthace

And what other people refer to them as. makes not a ha'porth difference to that.

Factually you are quite right, but you know perfectly well that for the government of Argentina it is not just a name. It is intensely political and is core to their claims of sovereignty which would inevitably override that self-determination.

[Ninthace]

Originally Posted by Video Mixdown

Factually you are quite right, but you know perfectly well that for the government of Argentina it is not just a name. It is intensely political and is core to their claims of sovereignty which would inevitably override that self-determination.

But it stops with the Argentine govt. The fact that the EU uses the term Malvinas/Falklands might give them a warm glow of self satisfaction but it advances their cause not a jot.

[Video Mixdown]

Originally Posted by Ninthace

But it stops with the Argentine govt. The fact that the EU uses the term Malvinas/Falklands might give them a warm glow of self satisfaction but it advances their cause not a jot.

A slippery slope. I’m happy to see that the UK and FI Governments have taken a more assertive attitude.

[Ninthace]

More a slow news day, mountain out of mole hill.

[Dan Gerous]

Let's just refer to them as the Malvinas to annoy and get it right up the Argies.

[Asturias56]

Originally Posted by Dan Gerous

Let's just refer to them as the Malvinas to annoy and get it right up the Argies.

Perhaps "The British Malvinas"? or "The Free Malvinas"?

[Imagegear]

Or the "not so broke" Malvenas

[Asturias56]

careful!!

there may be Boat People..............

[ORAC]

Nobody cares what others call the English Channel, but the islands are not a stretch of water, they are somebody's home and they have the right to self-determination.

And the French call the UK “Royaume-Uni ” and man6 other countries have their names when we use another - Germany for example.

​​​​​​​So what’s your point?

https://www.101languages.net/countri...her-languages/

[Spunky Monkey]

Originally Posted by Asturias56

Perhaps "The British Malvinas"? or "The Free Malvinas"?

Malvinas-on-Sea

[t43562]

Originally Posted by ORAC

And the French call the UK “Royaume-Uni ” and man6 other countries have their names when we use another - Germany for example.

The Turks want us to say "Toor-kee-yay" but for Britain they say "Ing-il-terre" and the USA is ABD to them. The Erdogan supporters get quite bothered about ¨Türkiye¨ as if the outside world was trying to insult them. I hope that people in the UK aren´t going waste time being like that.

[Lonewolf_50]

Originally Posted by minigundiplomat

Or 'das Reich'?

If you could phrase that as The Fourth Reich auf Deutsch, it would probably fit well enough.

Originally Posted by Less Hair

"The EU took note" this means "we don't care" in diplo-talk.

Filled with sound and fury, signifying nothing ...

Originally Posted by t43562

The Turks want us to say "Toor-kee-yay" .

If we did that it would ruin a lot of jokes. It's Turkey, in English.

[Buster Hyman]

What about West Buenos Aires & Wester Buenos Aires?

[Marcantilan]

You could call "Buenos Aires", "Good winds". We won't take it as an offence.

[minigundiplomat]

Or 'formerly rich and successful South American state run into the ground and now a backwards, inflation wracked basket case that needs a straw man in the South Atlantic to distract from decades of political incompetence'..
But that's a bit of a mouthful, so I tend to go for the place next to Chile, full of d1ckheads.

[Asturias56]

Then of course there is Jebel Tariq,,, which no-one calls by the correct name

[Asturias56]

Originally Posted by minigundiplomat

Or 'formerly rich and successful South American state run into the ground and now a backwards, inflation wracked basket case that needs a straw man in the South Atlantic to distract from decades of political incompetence'..
But that's a bit of a mouthful, so I tend to go for the place next to Chile, full of d1ckheads.

I think, to avoid a possible fatal misunderstanding when you visit Santiago, you'd rephrase that to

"I tend to go for the place full of d1ckheads, next to Chile"

[Captivep]

Originally Posted by Marcantilan

You could call "Buenos Aires", "Good winds". We won't take it as an offence.

Complete thread drift, but it's a great city to visit!