what is up with Americans and naming their cities after existing cities/countries?
>>107856435How do you know the Americn city didn't come first?
>>107856435yeah why would they do that in the New World those damn sudaca bastards probably even copied Cartagena directly from Carthage not from Spain who got it from Carthage
>>107856435Technolo/g/y?
>>107856435We name them after other cities, but we mispronounce them to mog the originals
>>107856435Reminds me of a time I mentioned something which was in Paris and some mutt bitch was like “huh which Paris? You mean Paris, France or Paris (some random state I can’t even remember)???” like she actually thought there was the slightest chance I actually meant her shithole town lol
>>107856435https://www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/illinois-place-name-of-the-day-oct-28-2008/
>>107856435Hardly an American phenomenon.
literally everywhere is named after one of these categories:>Someone who established/discovered it or is otherwise relevant>A description that was at one point relevant (regardless if it has been now)>a misunderstanding of what someone else called the place>An existing place, typically one you're from or the majority of people are from>an arbitrary assignment that militaries and gooks like to use for placesand MAYBE>a commemoration of an event or whateverand there's pretty much nothing else. These exist across the entire world. It's a little bit more obvious in the US perhaps because of how recently most of it was named, but you'll find this in places like Australia as well in similar form; and beyond that, many seemingly novel place names have just slowly changed their names over time to obfuscate where they were named after. Heck, there are some places in europe named "America" after America.
