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NATO logo but everyone is as entitled as the Fr*nch (feddit.org)
submitted 2 days ago by ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org to c/noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
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Acronym Title Language/Country
ОСАД Организацията на Северноатлантическия договор bg Bulgarian 🇧🇬
ОСАД Организација на Северноатлантскиот договор mk Macedonian 🇲🇰
SAA Severoatlantická aliance cs Czech 🇨🇿
NATO Nordatlantisk Traktat-Organisation da Danish 🇩🇰
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization en English 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦
Nato Den nordatlantiske traktats organisasjon no Norwegian 🇳🇴
ONAV Organisation des Nordatlantikvertrags de German 🇩🇪🇱🇺🇧🇪
ΟΒΑΣ Οργανισμός Βορειοατλαντικού Συμφώνου el Greek 🇬🇷
OTAN Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte es Spanish 🇪🇸
OTAN Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord fr Fr*nch 🇫🇷🇨🇦🇱🇺🇧🇪
OTAN Organizzazione del Trattato dell'Atlantico del Nord it Italian 🇮🇹
OTAN Organização do Tratado do Atlântico Norte pt Portugese 🇵🇹
OTAN Organizația Tratatului Atlanticului de Nord ro Romanian 🇷🇴
PALO Põhja-Atlandi Lepingu Organisatsioon et Estonian 🇪🇪
PAPL Pohjois-Atlantin puolustusliitto fi Finnish 🇫🇮
ÉASzSz Észak-atlanti Szerződés Szervezete hu Hungarian 🇭🇺
AB Atlantshafsbandalagið is Icelandic 🇮🇸
ONAT Organisatioun vum Nordatlantik-Traité lb Luxembourgish 🇱🇺
ŠASO Šiaurės Atlanto Sutarties Organizacija lt Lithuanian 🇱🇹
ZALO Ziemeļatlantijas Līguma organizācija lv Latvian 🇱🇻
OSAS Organizacija Severnog Atlantičkog sporazuma me Montenegrin 🇲🇪
OSAS Organizacija Sjevernoatlantskog sporazuma sh Croatian 🇭🇷
NAVO Noord-Atlantische Verdragsorganisatie nl Dutch 🇳🇱🇧🇪
OTPA Organizacja Traktatu Północnoatlantyckiego pl Polish 🇵🇱
DAB Davvi-Atlántta bealuštuslihttu se North Sámi 🇳🇴
OSAZ Organizácia Severoatlantickej zmluvy sk Slovak 🇸🇰🇨🇿
SAPO Severnoatlantska pogodbena organizacija sl Slovene 🇸🇮
OTAV Organizata e Traktatit të Atlantikut Verior sq Albanian 🇦🇱🇲🇰
NAFO Nordatlantiska fördragsorganisationen sv Swedish 🇸🇪🇫🇮
KAAÖ Kuzey Atlantik Antlaşması Örgütü tr Turkish 🇹🇷

Data mostly from Wikipedia. No warranty. For example, Slovak is arguably not an official language in the Czech Republic, just mentioned as “mutually intelligible” in certain laws but I followed Wikipedia and included it. Languages are grouped by the acronyms and sorted by their 2-letter codes. Those are based on their Wikipedia URL or my guess (sucks to be you, Montenegrin speakers, should have made your own Wikipedia). Countless Sámi languages are represented by North Sámi, the only one with a NATO Wikipedia article.

Changelog from v1 I originally posted on Reddit: Hungarian ÉASS → ÉASzSz (the "sz" stays together in acronyms because unlike most letter pairs it makes a single special sound).

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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I count 5 languages and 8 countries for OTAN and 3 languages and 5 countries for NATO, so if anyone is being entitled and not respecting the plurality is the anglophones.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

True but the vast majority of NATO countries use "NATO" as the acronym despite their languages producing all the different ones I showed. Most of the ones in the picture I had to deduce from the official translation, which is kind of my point: English works for just about everyone but Fr*nce. And the Fr*nch could accept "NATO" as the acronym too if they weren't nationalist pricks.

[–] pwet@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 days ago

Looking at your picture there is as many starting with O than N. And you seem to mix french language and France. And what about other acronisms like BIT, or the even the Croix Rouge ? So, tell us, why do you despise France so much?

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Never knew this, thanks

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I came here to write this

Take my up vote

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

You mean the French and the Anglo-Saxons?

Or, the NATO🔷OTAN logo is in Canadian

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Noncredible theory: Whenever the French and the Brits can't agree on something, they ask Canada for mediation, as it's the only country in the world that has successfully appeased both people.

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 2 days ago

I am like 90% sure that theory is more credible than non

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Look, any organization that has a name and acronym needs it in one language, and it's obviously going to be English in the world of 20^th^/21^st^ century North-Western diplomacy. Any more are a burden.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Wouldn't be so sure about the entire 21st century. There are some major efforts by the English speaking parts of the world in recent years to ruin that for themselves.

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ChaoticNeutralCzech

Hm.. hau vould you order drei beer? Where does Budweiser comm from?

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Dipends on uič kájnd of Budvajzr. Dí Emerykn van síms to kam from hórs pis.

Enyvej, ájm not stopink enyvan from spíking dejr lengvič et Nejtou, ic džast e vej to simplifáj byroukresy báj rimůvink ďůpliket uórk uit Fr*nč dokjumenc. Not tu menšn, Fr*nc hes ólmoust left Nejtou bifór sou dej árnt síryjus. Ólso, it vil stop as from lukink lájk e kid hů džast dyskavrd hau dejr nejm is speld bekvrdz end rajts it in bik letrz on e pejč.

[–] jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago

Be careful with the Fr🤮nce hate. Earlier today people forced me to say that I like fr🤮nch military planes.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Go Iceland. Simplify down from 4 letters to 2, and make one of those 2 letters a letter that doesn't even appear in the original.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's actually Atlantshafs**b**andalagið in Icelandic and the research I did suggests that it's just 2 words in the compound word, hence the two letters.

After I made the first version of mine, another Redditor made their own, which does not respect compound words and results in just "A" for Icelandic.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The French has earned that right IMO. Doing their thing all by themselves I mean.