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GDT: 2019 IIHF World Championships - Slovakia (Bratislava/Kosice) Part II: May 10th to 26th

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nyr2k2 said:
I've heard people in the US refer to the country as Holland. My parents and I, we had to look it up many years ago when I was a child, to figure out if Holland and the Netherlands were the same thing and if they were referred to as the Dutch. Honestly, though, it's not an oft-mentioned country so I don't have much frame of reference for people calling it the right or wrong name. I think most Americans know it for The Hague and Tulips.
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Yeah and they also speak a language very similar to the one in the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy. And they also have their own sauce that is like Béarnaise sauce but worse and you have it for fish.

Amazin- Seriously though, soccer fans from Netherlands sing ‘Hollland, Hoollqns Holland’ when you play, right? I’ve heard before that you don’t want to be called Holland, and that just don’t add up to me.
 
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Ola said:
Yeah and they also speak a language very similar to the one in the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy. And they also have their own sauce that is like Béarnaise sauce but worse and you have it for fish.

Amazin- Seriously though, soccer fans from Netherlands sing ‘Hollland, Hoollqns Holland’ when you play, right? I’ve heard before that you don’t want to be called Holland, and that just don’t add up to me.
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Holland is a region. Just like Norrbotten and Västerbotten being regions in Sweden doesn't make "Botten" an alternate name for the country.

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"China" is the worst. Originated from "tea".

Seriously, All countries have similar issues. For example in Russian: "Germans" are called "nemtzi" from Russian for "mute".
 
kovazub94 said:
"China" is the worst. Originated from "tea".

Seriously, All countries have similar issues. For example in Russian: "Germans" are called "nemtzi" from Russian for "mute".
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We really need a languages and geography thread where we can have endless discussions about this. This is so much fun
 
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if i am seeing it properly-
its pretty simple now for USA
play Russia, if win play Sweden or Finland, if win again, likely face Canada
that's a gauntlet, but of their own making

while Germany or Czech will, at worst, get to the Bronze Medal game

UPDATE - sorry, just saw this note:
IIHF - Quarter-Finals set!
Note that this is the first IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship where the semi-final pairings will not be determined in classic brackets but according to the seeding after the preliminary round.
The top-seeded semi-finalist will play the bottom-seeded semi-finalist at 15:15, and the second-seeded semi-finalist will play the third-seeded semi-finalist at 19:15.

Seeding order:
1) Russia (1st Group B, 21 points)
2) Canada (1st Group A, 18 points)
3) Czech Republic (2nd Group B, 18 points)
4) Finland (2nd Group A, 16 points)
5) Sweden (3rd Group B, 15 points)
6) Germany (3rd Group B, 15 points)
7) USA (4th Group A, 14 points)
8) Switzerland (4th Group B, 12 points)
 
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kovazub94 said:
"China" is the worst. Originated from "tea".

Seriously, All countries have similar issues. For example in Russian: "Germans" are called "nemtzi" from Russian for "mute".
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Yeah, and ain’t Pakistan an acronym with -stan more or less added to it since ‘all names there ends with a -stan’.

Amazing Kreiderman said:
Holland is a region. Just like Norrbotten and Västerbotten being regions in Sweden doesn't make "Botten" an alternate name for the country.

That is all
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I know the feeling. You have been to Luleå. Close to it you have Piteå. Those cities were just named by some dude in Stockholm because their correct names were so hard to spell/pronounce. We don’t even have any åar (creeks) there, They are called älvar instead, a special kind of river.
 
kovazub94 said:
"China" is the worst. Originated from "tea".

Seriously, All countries have similar issues. For example in Russian: "Germans" are called "nemtzi" from Russian for "mute".
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Its funny because China in chinese is zhong guo 中国, that refers to ancient Chinese times when they considered themselves to be in the middle of the world, because 中国 means middle country, and still think like this to lesser extent. I lived there so I know something about it. :nod:
 
kovazub94 said:
"China" is the worst. Originated from "tea".

Seriously, All countries have similar issues. For example in Russian: "Germans" are called "nemtzi" from Russian for "mute".
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I think it’s after an emperor they had.

The tea thing sounds like the explanation for why ananas is named ananas, which is that they needed boxes to freight them in and just took boxes used to ship bananas in and painted over the B. But then the professors has some kind of boring explanation...
 
cwede said:
if i am seeing it properly-
its pretty simple now for USA
play Russia, if win play Sweden or Finland, if win again, likely face Canada
that's a gauntlet, but of their own making

while Germany or Czech will, at worst, get to the Bronze Medal game
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You havent seen much of this this tourney I see. Its very unlikely that Germany beat Czechs, they even scored more goals than Canada in arguably tougher group and beat Sweden and Swiss. Only team that looks good from group A is Canada (and Germany to some degree) and they can easily lose to Swiss who are top notch this year and much more physical than anyone in their group was. Out of all Qfinalists USA look the worst by far, even Switzerland would possibly roast them.

My prediction is, no team from group A reaches semifinals.
 
Ola said:
I think it’s after an emperor they had.

The tea thing sounds like the explanation for why ananas is named ananas, which is that they needed boxes to freight them in and just took boxes used to ship bananas in and painted over the B. But then the professors has some kind of boring explanation...
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Not sure if all non-Euros know "ananas", not pineapple. And there is a word in Russian "china" which generally refer to "porcelain tea set" . @Amazing Kreiderman - we do need a special thread.
 
kovazub94 said:
Not sure if all non-Euros know "ananas", not pineapple. And there is a word in Russian "china" which generally refer to "porcelain tea set" . @Amazing Kreiderman - we do need a special thread.
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China in English is definitely a word referring to porcelain. You'll hear of fine china, your grandma will have a china cabinet, etc. There's a phrase about being a bull in a china shop, which I assume you can figure out.
 
China the country name comes from the Sanksrit word "cina" which was not the Sanskrit word for tea... Calling porcelain 'china' comes about because porcelain is originally from China and we're too lazy to say 'chinese porcelain' in order to differentiate it from porcelain that started being made in other countries
 
nyr2k2 said:
China in English is definitely a word referring to porcelain. You'll hear of fine china, your grandma will have a china cabinet, etc. There's a phrase about being a bull in a china shop, which I assume you can figure out.
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We are not so different after all.
 
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Kreider Luvs Goalies said:
My channel guide is showing the Canada game at 10 on NHLN
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mine originally did too because that was the game scheduled before the match ups were known and then updated. also watching NHL tonight in the banner on the right hand side it says usa vs russia

they show all the usa games, so that was a given imo. swe/fin was the question
 
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