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Colon is offline Colon
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Antwerp, Colon's Chocolate Canard Country
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I think we should start referring to our countries as IR, PO, PL, SL, HL, NL etc etc etc from now on, instead of using the full names as we usually do. It is a proper response to that nasty and utterly confusing habbit of our cousins across the pond for the referring to their states in such manner.
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HL?
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Greece?
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I used to have uk in one of my usernames, and someone once asked me what part of the US that was in. Stupid ****.
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Yeah everyone should know it's in Kansas!
Colon is offline Colon
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Greece?


Switserland. HE is Greece. (I think)
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close enough

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Nonsense. The American habit of referring to states by two-letter abbreviations is not nasty or confusing in any way, once you get the hang of it.
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I have a friend/colleague from HV

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Switserland. HE is Greece. (I think)
Switzerland? Switzerland, surely, ought be CH?
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let's just use the car signs

D for Germany, CH for Switzerland, BIH etc...
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Well the Americans have a state that doubles up as a personal lubricant

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HiV?
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Croatia.
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let's just use the car signs

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


But...but...but those are in Fench!!! OMG!!! teh H0rr0r!eleven!&11
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excuse me, what is in French?
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Switserland. HE is Greece. (I think)


I thought that GR is greece...
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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.
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No no no Greece is Hellas, thus HE.
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Confederatio Helvetica - latin

Deutschland - German (native)

United Kingdom - English (native)
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Sorry, it should be HR anyway...
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quote:
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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.
Colon is offline Colon
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Let's stick to 2 letter-abbreviations. That looks neat.

Germany should be DE.
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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.
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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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Germany should be DE.

We could use the online country suffixes.

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

and so on.
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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.

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quote:
We could use the online country suffixes.


No. I am not from goddamn Illinois.
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Maybe we should use this: http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm

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

 
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