GalacticCactus Forum

Forums => English & Linguistics => Topic started by: Jonathon on August 13, 2007, 03:21:13 PM

Title: Interesting article on country names and freedom
Post by: Jonathon on August 13, 2007, 03:21:13 PM

link (http://socialscienceplusplus.blogspot.com/2007/08/its-all-in-name-kingdom-of-norway-vs.html)

I just saw this on Language Log. I think everybody already knows that "People's Democratic Republic" is a sure sign that it's a totalitarian communist regime, but it's fun to see someone actually make charts of the correlation between country names and freedoms.

Title: Interesting article on country names and freedom
Post by: Farmgirl on July 01, 2008, 01:35:19 PM

Totally unrelated to Jonathon's first post, but I'm going to post this link here anyway (http://www.vdare.com/awall/080630_memo.htm) because I thought it was very interesting.

Title: Interesting article on country names and freedom
Post by: Jonathon on July 01, 2008, 02:58:05 PM

Why not just make a new thread for it?

Title: Interesting article on country names and freedom
Post by: The Genuine on July 01, 2008, 07:48:38 PM

:)