Since (You) care about faithful translations so much, you should start calling this country Zongo instead of China. "China" is literally the woke westerner translator taking bullshit creative liberties. You know, like son of a submariner and spoony bard.
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>>217616274Uh it's actually Zhong guo(Pronounced Jong Guo like "Judge") you Brazilian n_____ (redacted for my anger management class)
>>217616472how old are you?
>>217616491Now that I know a little bit about the phonology it is fun to practice by saying qing chong as fast as I can, which is not very fast yet.
>>217616274Why not Cathay? It sounds way better than China
>>217616491>John go
>>217616274truly an accurate name since the country is the congo of asia
>>217616274I don't know how the word "china" became part of the English word for China. Where did it originally come from? The Portuguese? After all, they traded with China for centuries.
>>217618812They got it from the Portuguese but the Portuguese got it from the Middle East and Southeast Asia, where the people there had a different name for it which got Portuguefied into China
>>217618812葡萄牙语这个单词来源于波斯语“chin”,借于“秦”国而起名。
>>217616274中国 is a boring name. I prefer 华夏 or 神州.
>>217619930神人州
>>217619987这个好。
>>217618812In Europe we used to refer to China as "Cathay". During the Qing dynasty it became known as China because people in Asia were calling it "Chin".
>>217620402the latins and greeks already called it “sina” due to the qin dynasty. it was known as “cathay” during the middle ages due to the khitan conquest. the portuguese first use the name “china” to refer to guangdong in the 1500s, which is before the qing dynasty... therefore they must have been told that was the name of the place by an asian people that still used the old name. it's believed that the people in question were the persians the name “japan” has a similar story. the chinese used to call it “cipan” and that's the word that europeans came to use
>>217618812China comes from the Sanskrit word for the Qing dynasty unronically iirc
>>217620674Serica is the oldest attested name for it, I can see why it didn't stick because the word just means 'land of silk'. Khitan is a dead ethnic group with its own logographic script that oddly enough has nothing to do with Chinese.
>>217616274Chinkland it is
>>217616274支那
>>217616274Dope
>>217618652kek
Zongo sounds retarded
