Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTIL the U.S. Civil War is called "The Slave War" in Icelandiclemmy.worldimagemessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1856arrow-down116
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minus-squarenogooduser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·3 months agoWouldn’t every country refer to the civil war that happened in their country as the civil war. Assuming that they only had one … we’ve had a few in the UK so they have their own names.
minus-squareSekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoAs far as I know Switzerland only had one and we call it the Sonderbund war
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·3 months agoOnly if you want to pretend it was the only civil war in the world.
minus-squarenogooduser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·3 months agoNot really. I refer to our shed as the shed. It’s obviously not the only shed in the world. People tend to use the whatever when there is one whatever that is obviously more relevant to the conversation than the others.
Wouldn’t every country refer to the civil war that happened in their country as the civil war. Assuming that they only had one … we’ve had a few in the UK so they have their own names.
As far as I know Switzerland only had one and we call it the Sonderbund war
Only if you want to pretend it was the only civil war in the world.
Not really. I refer to our shed as the shed. It’s obviously not the only shed in the world.
People tend to use the whatever when there is one whatever that is obviously more relevant to the conversation than the others.