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CyberEgg discuss.tchncs.de CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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Map naming the Atlantic Ocean the Eurafrican Sea with the caption: "Since we are at renaming bodies of water: just a proposition"

What are your ideas?

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viertesauge feddit.org viertesauge@feddit.org
Joined: 2026-05-10
#2 · (edited) Quote Reply

I think we should name a bunch of american cities after european ones and just put a "new" in front of them.

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username_1 discuss.tchncs.de username_1@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2026-06-01
#3 · Quote Reply

Wrong! it should be called "Beautiful Ocean №2"

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freagle lemmy.ml frisbird@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-11-24
#4 · Quote Reply

Both of the words are Euro. It was the Roman word for a specific province in the North of the continent and Europeans then just used it to mean the whole continent. A better name for it might be "The Ocean of White Tears"

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ℓostme piefed.social lostme@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-01-26
#5 · Quote Reply

I think we should name a bunch of american cities after european ones and just put a "new" in front of them.

I'd really like to see NY be renamed something silly, like New Amsterdam

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Elvith Ma'for feddit.org elvith@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-21
#6 · Quote Reply

I propose to rename the USA to United States of New Castile

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Aneb lemmy.world Aneb@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-08-28
#7 · Quote Reply

I'd really like to see NY be renamed something silly, like New Amsterdam

You know he's just gonna name it New Trump City. He's too egotistical, it's "his" city, he's grown and bred NYC with a propensity towards Florida.

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farmgineer nord.pub farmgineer@nord.pub
Joined: 2026-04-25
#8 · Quote Reply

Minor Wavy Bits. The pacific, being bigger, is of course Major Wavy Bits.

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Malgas beehaw.org Malgas@beehaw.org
Joined: 2023-06-09
#9 · Quote Reply

Oh man, the Atlanteans are gonna be pissed.

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spechter feddit.org spechter@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-06-29
#10 · Quote Reply

I propose to rename the USA to United States of New Castile

Fifty colonies

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keepthepace tarte.nuage-libre.fr keepthepace@tarte.nuage-libre.fr
Joined: 2025-03-25
#11 · (edited) Quote Reply

I think we should name a bunch of american cities after european ones and just put a "new" in front of them.

And teach them a simplified version of a random European dialect like we did in all our colonies.

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keepthepace tarte.nuage-libre.fr keepthepace@tarte.nuage-libre.fr
Joined: 2025-03-25
#12 · Quote Reply

Honestly, there is a real proposition. In French we sometimes do the difference between US citizens "États-Uniens" and Americans, which includes Canadians, south americans, Mexicans, etc... All the US citizens I talked about it never heard about it but we should just start calling them USians. Accurate and fair to the rest of the Americans.

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CyberEgg discuss.tchncs.de CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-22
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Honestly, there is a real proposition. In French we sometimes do the difference between US citizens "États-Uniens" and Americans, which includes Canadians, south americans, Mexicans, etc... All the US citizens I talked about it never heard about it but we should just start calling them USians. Accurate and fair to the rest of the Americans.

Well, in Germany we ofzen call US citizens "US-Amerikaner". I thought this to be rather usual.

"USians" would maybe not work great either since Mexico's official name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos, so they could be USians, too.

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TheEmpireStrikesDak thelemmy.club DakRalter@thelemmy.club
Joined: 2023-06-15
#14 · Quote Reply

Honestly, there is a real proposition. In French we sometimes do the difference between US citizens "États-Uniens" and Americans, which includes Canadians, south americans, Mexicans, etc... All the US citizens I talked about it never heard about it but we should just start calling them USians. Accurate and fair to the rest of the Americans.

I prefer USers.

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