"Where are you from?" "Austria!" "Oh, kangaroos?" "No, Hitler."

@KarlaO711

2 жыл бұрын

I'd say Falco. Because most Americans know: Amadeus Amadeus!

@khangnguyenthaiduy9129

2 жыл бұрын

@Super Mario Mozart is of Germany and Hitler is of Austria. It's just that Austria's cleverness made everyone thought the opposite.

@WallahNein

Жыл бұрын

@@khangnguyenthaiduy9129 why is Mozart German and not Austrian? And who thinks that Hitler is German?

@rollinghippo2940

Жыл бұрын

@@khangnguyenthaiduy9129 technically hitler was also a german because austria was under the german back then

@Auspop

5 ай бұрын

@@WallahNein ..... I thought he was both, but now thinking about it, Austrian-Germans don't sound real... I feel dumb now.

I've always wanted to go to Austria and see the kangaroos.

@alinalecse8351

7 жыл бұрын

I'd love to go Australia and learn german.

@Rogerrramjet1

7 жыл бұрын

Antifoul Awl lol

@Kram1032

7 жыл бұрын

The Tierpark Schönbrunn will fulfill all your hopping marsupial needs.

@fluffboll5648

7 жыл бұрын

**Inhale** **Exhale** ;w;

@BadWebDiver

7 жыл бұрын

Actually, I hear the French have a few herds of kangaroos around the place. Just sayin'.

In german its still Österreich.

@averagedude6688

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, in dutch as well.

@Fleurig-xr5mm

7 жыл бұрын

Speechless Gamer In Dutch we use Oostenrijk :)

@averagedude6688

7 жыл бұрын

Means the same thing ;)

@Fleurig-xr5mm

7 жыл бұрын

Speechless Gamer True

@IfYouMeetAWolf

7 жыл бұрын

Swedish too (Österrike) :)

you left out Tasmania!

@sepnoro8769

7 жыл бұрын

As a tasmanian im *200.0 % TRIGGERED*

@dr_doorknob4792

7 жыл бұрын

Chrisg841 I'm not even from tas I'm extremely triggered. Why would they forget you guys? Everyone forgets you. I feel so bad for you. =(

@cutecollie3604

6 жыл бұрын

As a Tasmanian i am 1,000,000,000% triggered.

@maxonmendel5757

5 жыл бұрын

Cute Collie **gasp** .... that’s enough triggering to cover the entire globe... **apocalypse ensues**

@cliveclivenson7149

5 жыл бұрын

NPC3228 200% because you have 2 heads?

Every time you showed Australia, you forgot that Tasmania is also part of the country! :-(

@DeadshotDivinityFan

7 жыл бұрын

We don't consider Tasmania a part of Australia mate.

@plasmatch8

7 жыл бұрын

Is it cos they're fuckin' inbreds?

@OskoreiMick

7 жыл бұрын

yeah mate, Tasmania can just piss off

@Freemanjacobt

7 жыл бұрын

At least down here we speak English.

@OskoreiMick

7 жыл бұрын

if thats the best your got i suggest you go ask your nephson for a better comeback

Österreich did not become Austria its just the english Name of Österreich

@flinkerb

7 жыл бұрын

why RU knechtel the word Österreich became Austria when it was transfered to the english language, I think that's what he meant

@KaiHenningsen

7 жыл бұрын

In fact, it became Austria when the Austrians themselves latinized it (transferred it into *Latin*) around 1147, which is why it's A on cars and AT on the Internet. The English just thought that was easier than the German name. How goes it again ... _Bélla geránt aliī, tú felix Áustria nūbe_.

@KarlaO711

7 жыл бұрын

But everyone who speaks German call it Österreich. The only time we speak from Austria is, when we speak in English ^^

@emiliah.7810

7 жыл бұрын

KarlaO711 Yep, true

@mini-mei

7 жыл бұрын

Well, I'm no expert but maybe that's because people who speak German usually don't speak Latin as their first language ;-)

Australia Hungary

@Creepex

3 жыл бұрын

Australia's hungry

@ryukaze.

3 жыл бұрын

Czechoslovenia

Both in Austria and Australia you have ostriches.

@Djr67

7 жыл бұрын

No we have Emus in Australia

@SkeldraBH

7 жыл бұрын

Balerion i have never in my life seen a single wildlife that is famous for being in australia (except for a zoo , that doesnt count :3 ) in austria and i have lived in austria for MANY MANY years btw ostriches are nowhere to be seen in a single part of austria

@soapmaker9000

6 жыл бұрын

eh, emus, close enough XD

@foxthebox5113

6 жыл бұрын

We have squirrels :P

@helmetguy6495

6 жыл бұрын

Australia has Emus, who wins in wars

I also noticed that they are both green.

@potatochipable7342

7 жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness! So did I! :O

@AnarchistMetalhead

7 жыл бұрын

yeah, ever since occupy Hainburg those anti technology bastards have had undue influence

@astropoug7851

7 жыл бұрын

not for me, for me, most of australia is brown/orange

@germanvisitor2

7 жыл бұрын

Anti-technology?

So Antarctica is the real Australia

@BurkinaFaso69

7 жыл бұрын

Antarctica is only slightly bigger than Australia. The confusion comes from shitty 2d world maps.

@TheIIDarkshadowII

7 жыл бұрын

NiftyTheLynx Well no, not really. The problem with Antarctica is that it's not really a continent - more of a collection of islands held together by a big sheet of ice. Take away the ice and you have the Antarctic archipelago, so its debatable which 'continent' is really bigger.

Australia is is from Latin - Terra Australis, Southern Earth Austria is from German - Österreich, Eastern Realm

@tobi9466

7 жыл бұрын

wow where did you get that information from?

@domesticcat1725

7 жыл бұрын

geronimo​ Geography at school, mr Sarcasm

@rskb1957

7 жыл бұрын

Thank goodness someone knows!

"Osten" means "the cheese" in Swedish ^^

@readisgooddewaterkant7890

3 жыл бұрын

det är sant

@Grizzly_mike_00

3 жыл бұрын

Austria has great cheese so it's fitting 😂

@scottydu81

2 жыл бұрын

“Austin” is also a maybe tier three popular men’s name at least here in the States

@shadowfoxviiaurel5709

2 жыл бұрын

ig im from cheese-reich

@KianCabardo

2 жыл бұрын

and reich in english means empire and rich rich cheese empire

Nice explanation! :-) 2 amendments: 1. The problem only exists in english. The german names, for example, are "Österreich" and "Australien" - no one who speaks german would mix it up. 2. Yes, the first name of Austria was "Ostarrichi", but the meaning "realm in the east" is a later interpretation. The real origin of the word is the slavic "ostric", what means "land of hills" ;-)

@Lindau7471

7 жыл бұрын

Actually there is no real orgin known behind the word "Ostarrichi", it is right that the word "Ostarrichi" first appears in 996 on an document but it is written there, "the region that is called Ostarrichi in the venecular". That is the only real and proven fact that we no about the origin.

@osakablinladen

7 жыл бұрын

It doesn't really exist in german (and other germanic languages) but it exists in more languages besides english (and unfortunately speaking german doesn't prevent you from making the mistake as soon as you switch out lol)

@erebos0110

7 жыл бұрын

Mithrandír Lannister I have to add that we use the Latin name Austria quite a lot in Österreich.

@mithrandirlannister2230

7 жыл бұрын

Wann genau tun wir das, außer bei "Markennamen" wie FC Austria oder Austria Tabak? Ich selber bin Österreicher und würd niemals sagen "ich lebe in Austria".

@bitnerka91

7 жыл бұрын

The problem exists in many languages, e.g. in Polish (and probably in most of the slavic languages) it is also "Austria" and "Australia". Ofc the pronunciation is different to the English one. I think the reason why Österreich was translated into Austria was the Latin language. We also have some weird Polish names for German cities because of the Latin language like e.g. "Aachen" is "Akwizgran", "München" is "Monachium" and "Mainz" is "Moguncja".

It should be noted that 'Austria' is also the Latin (or Latinized) version of 'Österreich' (like Polonia for Poland or Suecia for Sweden), not just the English word for the country. So both names come from Latin, Australia being genuinly Latin by itself and Austria being the Latinized version of it's original German name.

A part of northern Spain is called Asturia :)

@kiertavasirkus

7 жыл бұрын

Benjámin Kurilla and there are two areas in Europe that were at some point called Galicia

@1HUSEINKAPETAN1

7 жыл бұрын

Gabriela Piechowicz Same how there were once two Albanias, one on the Balkans and one in the Caucasus. Also same thing with Iberia.

@kiertavasirkus

7 жыл бұрын

1HUSEINKAPETAN1 I didn't know about Albania, wow!

@HaniiPuppy

7 жыл бұрын

@1HUSEINKAPETAN1 And Scotland, which is also known as Alba.

@oscarword775

4 жыл бұрын

Also, Leon is the name of a place semi-close to Asturia and a place near the tip of Brittany.

In Austria there are no kanguroos Only Kuhlimuhs Austrians will understand

RIP Tasmania

@janarsola1718

5 жыл бұрын

A Very Good Man yeah

@jaschabull2365

5 жыл бұрын

The devil(s) take it. :P

Nice video as always, but I am gonna have to correct you on the two roots of the two country names being unrelated and being similar by pure coincidence. They both ultimately derive from the Indo-European word for "dawn". [edit] ...probably.

@FedorSteeman

7 жыл бұрын

This is true.

@TheHollomap

7 жыл бұрын

if you come on a guys video...... and say he is wrong....... you better have citations........ pro tip *flies away*

@Phrenotopia

7 жыл бұрын

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/auster#Etymology

@Phrenotopia

7 жыл бұрын

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/auster#Etymology en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/austraz

@TheHollomap

7 жыл бұрын

wiki is not a valid citation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Australia see that wiki entry says he is right. cite a proper citation or don't speak of things as fact till you have 100% evidence. until you cite your sourcs and lay them in a counter argument lets just say i will not take your side.

RIP Fritzl, Hero of Australia.

@Jo-dntknw

6 жыл бұрын

*National Hero of Austria I'm Austrian so this crucial detail insulted me quit a bit

@deponensvogel7261

5 жыл бұрын

@@Jo-dntknw You're the real hero in this comment section.

@zetjet9901

4 жыл бұрын

Jo, I realize that this was two years ago, but I believe that the original comment was a joke.

My word is: Accijectus (A-see-ject-us) A coincidence relating to a similar subject. Origin Latin Subjectus Accidit mean Subject Coincidence

You should explain these: - all 4 'Guineas' - Mauritius, Mauritania - Swaziland, Switzerland - Grenada, Canada - Dominican Republic, Dominica - the 'stans' - the 'saints' islands which are all near each other - Wroclaw, Breslau, Brecla, Vratislav, Bratislava, Wratislavia

@dickchampion5860

7 жыл бұрын

The Stans can be explained because it's the Turkish word for :"The land of the".

@gurrrn1102

7 жыл бұрын

Persian.

@polandball9937

7 жыл бұрын

Lincoln Ho | YEGventures.ca Switzerland is in their language Schweiz punk

@stojankovacic1524

6 жыл бұрын

and Schweiz is read Sh - wy - c

@Meow-jx1xk

6 жыл бұрын

Wheres Papa New Guinea?

Maybe you should pronounce that 'ö' sound well, if you're making such type of videos.

@solid7468

7 жыл бұрын

khhhhhhh

@denisbrezovsky5271

7 жыл бұрын

I think the ch was way more of an issue.

@NameExplain

7 жыл бұрын

Krev's Channel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@OceanEmbers

7 жыл бұрын

for future reference, it's "øːstəʁaɪç" in IPA. Ö is kinda like "uh" or "ooh" and the "ch" is much softer, and halfway to "sh"

@idnwiw

7 жыл бұрын

Correct pronunciation: forvo.com/word/%C3%B6sterreich/#de btw, this is a library of the prununciation of everything in many languages - something everybody making videos/podasts... should know

I’ll never forget that episode of Mr. Bean when he almost went to Australia cause he thought a treasure map was leading him there but really it was going to a lake in a park in his town

UUUSTERAICH Well, you tried

@hgzmatt

7 жыл бұрын

haha..

@LinhNguyen-lq8yd

6 жыл бұрын

become as ostrich

@stojankovacic1524

6 жыл бұрын

(something between O and U) ster - ry (something between K and H)

@Fordring1776

6 жыл бұрын

Aust-er-Rei-KUH. How it's really pronounced

@avocadothecat

5 жыл бұрын

@No Thank you not really... Ö sounds like... well an Ö tjete is a reason why it is a seperaze letter cuz u can't really describe it with others. You just can recomend someone to let gTranslate read the letter ö to you ...

STOP FORGETTING TASMANIA. EVERYONE FORGETS TASMANIA.

@byHeaLiiAU

7 жыл бұрын

bearbear ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ It's right there seriously how do they forget us

@maromegathron8234

7 жыл бұрын

Poor forgotten Tasmania. New Zealand is also frequently missing on world maps created by media, but Australia is never missing because its big.

@TheVoiceOfLiberty1

7 жыл бұрын

bearbear ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ There's no such thing as a Tasmaniac

@AmeshaSpentaArmaiti

7 жыл бұрын

but the devil lives there. or so i hear.

@LordZonaxe

7 жыл бұрын

Only the Tasmanian Devil he/she/it only likes Tas.

English although influenced by Latin, is a Germanic language.

@MRACproductions100

7 жыл бұрын

ENGMAC True, except more of its vocabulary is Romance than Germanic. There is a movement called "Anglish" which replaces all these Romance words with Germanic ones to show what English would have become without influence, quite interesting and worth reading in to!

@engmac8178

7 жыл бұрын

Banjoman2342 it's still considered Germanic because the majority of words in the English language derive from the angles and Saxons. But I still understand the heavy influence of Latin from French invasions and adoptions of other Latin words as well as Greek.

@Lucy-ng7cw

7 жыл бұрын

+Banjoman2342 right, by that logic Hungarian is a Turkic language...

@MRACproductions100

7 жыл бұрын

Lucy Hunt I never stated English was not a Germanic language, I don't disagree with that. However that does not mean English does not have a majority Romance vocabulary. Around 58% of the vocabulary is Romance derived, while 28% is Germanic derived. Really you should be directing your condescension to ENGMAC, who was incorrect in his response comment.

@engmac8178

7 жыл бұрын

Banjoman2342 alright buddy, don't need to be buthurt because you're wrong

The coolest part is that it isn't even just pure coincidence. German Ost and Latin Auster both derive from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- which is reconstructed to mean something like 'dawn' or 'east'. So the names for Austria and Australia are etymologically related!

I am from Austria and hate that there are so many people mixing it up.

@vitomillauer3780

7 жыл бұрын

But very cool vid. Enjoyed watching it.

@itstoolate3186

5 жыл бұрын

Okay mate didgeridoo

@LunizIsGlacey

4 жыл бұрын

Why's that so bad, mate?

@dreampug7117

4 жыл бұрын

Do you know German and English

@tehma120

2 жыл бұрын

I don't mind, Australia and Australians are cool.

00:17 Even when Tasmania actually IS on the map, it's still ignored.

English speakers and those who use english vocabulary in their language have that problem But not in Germany. They say to Austria = Österreich and to Australia= Australien. Therefore you should adopt the german Name in order to prevent confusion. Its so easy

Your theory is one that is certainly popular and I've heard it before. However, as a student of Australian history I have also heard a new one concerning the name. The Spanish explorer, Luis Vaez de Torres, who gave his name to Torres Strait, the stretch of water separating Australia from New Guinea, named the Southern land Australia as a pun on Austria. His Spanish King was also the King of Austria and the Netherlands. Who knows? Some say it was named after Magellan, another Spanish explorer, called it Terra Australis Spiritu Sanctu (Southern land of the Holy Spirit), because when he rounded South Africa and travelled into the southern hemisphere he saw the Southern Cross and beheld it as a sign from God. Although he never sailed to Australia, he believed there must be a land mass to balance the Earth. His ideas persisted until Captain Cook was able to show there wasn't the same amount of landmass. Over the years the title got shortened to Australia. And since we aussies like to shorten everything to one or two syllables, it is now Oz.

"Oh you are from Austria? I was there last year! In Sydney! You have nice kangaroos!" Triggered \(._.)/

Old High German, haha. Didn't get it at first.

@maxonmendel5757

5 жыл бұрын

I don’ geddit. I think my granddaddy was an old high German, though.

@ivanthominski1085

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

Then there are the medieval kingdoms of Asturias and Austrasia, but that's a whole different story.

Words that look similar but have different meanings and origins are often called false cognates or false friends.

@jurjenbos228

5 жыл бұрын

Yep, that's also the term we use in Dutch: "valse vrienden"

@maxonmendel5757

5 жыл бұрын

Aaaah 😃

@deponensvogel7261

5 жыл бұрын

However, they're real cognates. I'll copy and paste my comment: Actually, ›Austria‹ and ›Australia‹ share the same Proto-Indo-European root: *h^2ews- [›dawn‹ or ›east‹] -› *h^2ews-(ro-) -› Germanic: *austraz -› Old High German: austar -› Au-/O-star-richi -› latinized: Aust(a)ria -› *h^2ews-(teros) -› Italic: *austeros -› Latin: auster -› Terra Australis -›Australia

"But it's difficult to conduct a dialogue with people who confuse Austria and Australia. Nothing can be done about it." -President Vladimir Putin, speaking of "American people," one in particular.

@ddc2957

2 жыл бұрын

It’s gotta be Bush.

You forgot to add Tasmania in your drawing of Australia

@austing5951

7 жыл бұрын

I thought Tasmania was part of New Zealand

@hfthbfyuggvdryj4973

7 жыл бұрын

i used to think i went overseas when i went to tassie but i actually just went over water

@Elainerulesutube

7 жыл бұрын

Well, Tasmanians get very angry when this happens!

@edwardwalker7069

7 жыл бұрын

It pissed my little Inbred brain off

@ZenithGamingVideos

7 жыл бұрын

I think Tasmania is best left out of the drawing... it doesn't really count now, does it?

Und für die Deutsch sprechende, die sagen "Deine Aussprache ist schlimm. Sprech diese ö gerausche rightig bitte!" Das ist schwierig für Englische Muttersprachler! Sei nett! Viel spaß mit 'Squirrel' and 'sixth'.

@Phrenotopia

7 жыл бұрын

Mann! Ich habe nicht gewußt dass du so gut in Deutsch bist! Ich habe es viele Jahren in der Schule gehabt,als ich jung war, und meine Muttersprache (Niederländisch) ist sehr nah. Kannst du auch Niederländisch ein Bisschen verstehen durch Deutsch und Englisch zu kombinieren?

@williamcfox

7 жыл бұрын

Phrenomythic Ich hab versucht Niederländisch zu verstehen aber ich find's sehr schwierig. Vielleicht geschrieben wäre einfacher und ich werde es ausprobieren wenn ich Niederland in 2017 besuche :)

@Phrenotopia

7 жыл бұрын

Super! Ich wohne heute nicht mehr in den Niederländen, sondern in Dänemark mit meiner Frau und Kindern. Aber wo, wann und warum hast du so gutes Deutsch gelernt wie Amerikaner?

@Phrenotopia

7 жыл бұрын

Ach so... Du wohnst in Deutschland!

@MuchWhittering

7 жыл бұрын

Ich bin Englischer Muttersprachler und, obwohl ich Deutsch gut aussprechen kann, weiß ich dass ausländische Sprachen schwierig sein können. Einsprachige hören Leute, die ihre Sprache gut sprechen, aber denn es ist nicht perfekt, benehmen sie sich als können sie die Sprache gar nicht. Und wahrscheinlich kommen jetzt viele Deutschsprachige, um mein Deutsch zu kritisieren. Denn sie finden es lustig.

The word for this is Anglification I believe. They sound really similar in English because both the names have been adapted from the same word, albeit in different languages, to english.

Hehe, for me as a german its quite funny how you pronounce "Österreich" ;) But I know, pronouncing the "Ö" right is even harder than the "th" in English language ;) Nevertheless a very cool video, I was always thinking about that and you gave me the correct answer, thank you!

What about Nexincidence ? Form Latin Nexus - bond and coincidence it could signify coincidence bound by the same principle or origin etc. coincidence that is linked.

@kuyaleinad4195

7 жыл бұрын

Denis Brezovsky It's pretty hard to pronounce but I like it XD How about Nexidence instead? Or Nexusidence? Since Nexincidence is hard to pronounce XD

@denisbrezovsky5271

7 жыл бұрын

Kuya Dan I considered Nexidence as an option, it does sound better, but because it's shorter than coincidence it makes it look like etymologically completely different word, kinda taking away in clarity. Though it's still good, I can't quite decide either.

@Dixio

7 жыл бұрын

+Kuya Dan Nexidence sounds much better!:o Good job to both of you! : )

@Phrenotopia

7 жыл бұрын

Never mind, because as it turns out, two similar-sounding words from two distantly related languages covering related concepts of direction are probably connected after all! According to etymological sources, both Latin "auster" and Proto-Germanic "austra" are both derived from the Proto-Indo-European word for "dawn".

@LyndonWoytuck

7 жыл бұрын

Makes sense as "aurum" (gold) has similar roots, so I would expect PIE trumps

Then you have (In superior spanish): Suecia, Suiza & Suazilandia and (in english) Sweden, Switzerland & Swaziland.

@solid7468

7 жыл бұрын

In Arabic, it is "Swesra"

@baartus

7 жыл бұрын

Szwecja, Szwajcaria and Suazi in Polish. Some people actually get Szwecja and Szwajcaria confused

@namenotfound8747

7 жыл бұрын

What the fuck is Superior spanish?

@Narnendil

7 жыл бұрын

I feel like everyone does it, even if you explain the differences to them >.

@Rafasotobal

7 жыл бұрын

+GraPlay how do you even pronounce that

I've learned over time that these coincidences aren't actually a coincidence, but a synchronicity instead. It's a word coined by Carl Jung. Basically he says that these things happen for a reason, and it isn't by pure chance. We have a lot of synchronicities; one of them being Austria and Australia because of how similar the names are.

Australia receives the name from the royal dynasty of Spain at the time: The "Casa de Austria".

This bloke should learn how to pronounce VANUATU !

@whenyoudonteditdatout6589

6 жыл бұрын

Van, as in the van, u, as in oo, a, is in aa, too, as in you too- Van,u,a,too

@sarreqteryx

5 жыл бұрын

he pronounced "osterîchi" and "österreich" different every time he said them, so I don't think he's really all that worried about pronunciation.

@andyjamess

5 жыл бұрын

And the 'dis' for this

Another Hello Internet fan I see. The mighty black stump

@jerrykoh9692

7 жыл бұрын

Hello Tim!!

@kieranmorris7315

7 жыл бұрын

Tims Unite!

@21greendayrocks

7 жыл бұрын

Suibhne Guilty :D

@pipsasqeak820

7 жыл бұрын

2nd tallest building in SA, we've really come far havent we

@sillyeyesmedia9647

6 жыл бұрын

Jazzy Joe, it is a pod cast in joke

I got so weirded out when I was learning Dutch and heard that the name for Austria was Oostenrijk. I was like what where did that come from?

Can you make a video about how the continents were named? I already know how the Americas were named to save you a couple minutes of time: After Columbus "discovered" America and though it was India, many people believed that until an Italian explorer named Amerigo Vespucci had done calculations and found out that the Americas were, in fact, not India and then the supercontinent was split in 2 and named after him.

So what, Tasmania isn't part of Australia anymore? The hell, man?

@ValentinDinca

7 жыл бұрын

Tasmania is part of the continent Australia..he spoke about the country Australia.

@ARCStudiosyt

7 жыл бұрын

Valentin Dinca Continent Australia? You mean Oceania, right?

@ValentinDinca

7 жыл бұрын

AlexDraws Oceania is not a continent..is a region that includes Australia and the nearby islands..Australia refers as both a country and the continent.The continent involves Australia,Papua New Guinea and Tasmania.

@ethanwilliams8211

7 жыл бұрын

Valentin Dinca No Tasmania is apart of the country Australia

@aekibunnie9746

7 жыл бұрын

Spyre Gaming yeah, it's just another state

As an austrian this makes me happy

@SkeldraBH

7 жыл бұрын

MaiNai me too i am austrian and the last time i told somebody i came from austria they later realised i meant AUSTRIA NOT AUSTRALIA btw still dont understand why people get confused by this

@dr_doorknob4792

7 жыл бұрын

Skeldra Gaming Ikr how do they get Austria and Australia confused.

love this video. keep up the good work!

thank you very much for sharing such a great video

Cool video man. I'll have to check out more of your stuff.

@FebruaryHas30Days

6 ай бұрын

Hi

Your pronunciation of 'Ostarrichi' was spot on but your 'Österreich' sounded like 'Üsterreich'^^

@montanus777

7 жыл бұрын

to be fair the pronounciation of 'Österreich' even sounds different in the various german dialects. :)

@magiv4205

7 жыл бұрын

+montanus777 But in no German dialect does "Österreich" sound like "Uuhshterraick"😂

@MysteriousAsteria

7 жыл бұрын

You mean German Germans. No Austrian would pronounce it that way, or else there will be blood.

@HesseJamez

7 жыл бұрын

Austrians say "Äästerrreich" (A like in "air" and stronk rolling "R") The "ch"-noise is impossible to pronounce for native English speaker. It's neither a "ck" nor a "sh".

@magiv4205

7 жыл бұрын

HesseJamez There is no suh thing as impossible. It's basically an aspirated "ck". With a little practice, you can do it. The dental fricative "th" is only used in about 4% of all languages, and still we learn it when we learn to speak english.

The German word for Austria sounds so much like the English world for ostrich. Every time I hear it, it makes me think of those crazy birds. Even the English word bears a bit of resemblance to the word for them, and this stands out even more once you learn the German word. Austria is the land of ostriches!

The Latin word is even more closely linked to the German. The Romans used the name Auster for a south-east wind which was more relevant than wind coming from due south. And the route of both Aust and Ost was Proto Indo European aus- or h2ews-, which was connected to the dawn and the east (which is also a related word).

The fact that you left Tasmania off the map of Australia has really annoyed me.

@damienmiller1302

7 жыл бұрын

StoneColdChewy I know right, the map looks weird without it.

@razzmatazz1974

6 жыл бұрын

im puzzled everytime they say Australia is a continent for the same reasons... what, do all the other islands have no continent affiliation? Australia= country Oceania=continent

Not east of Germany. East of Bavaria.

Australia is large 'discounted version' of Austria

@AliMildred

6 жыл бұрын

Austria is just a part of Germany ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@zyptux

5 жыл бұрын

@@AliMildred STFU, Austria is way better than Germany!

@rubee_7499

5 жыл бұрын

@@zyptux bro people have their opinions

@drskull.

5 жыл бұрын

And Austria is small, discount Germany

@denizmetint.462

3 жыл бұрын

@@zyptux Ugh, Bavaria is just the part of Austria that was left behind to the Saupreissn

Your pronunciation of Vanuatu was hilarious

@marzabow1111

7 жыл бұрын

ikr

@183haleroad6

7 жыл бұрын

tarkineWild van new a two

@tubekulose

6 жыл бұрын

His German-ish pronunciation not less.

isn't this a case of "false friend"??? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_friend false friend noun a word or expression that has a similar form to one in a person's native language, but a different meaning (for example Englishmagazine and French magasin‘shop’).

@nessfinesse3195

6 жыл бұрын

another case of false friend English: Alphabet Polish: Alfabet

I don't think 'the Celtics' is a term used in English, it should probably be 'the Celts'

@mothra__13

6 жыл бұрын

Sira Mea the celtics is the name of a sports team in america, so technically a term used in (american) english. but not how he used it, lol.

What happened to Tasmania?

@johnnyfelcher8156

6 жыл бұрын

I believe it used to be part of mainland Australia 10,000 years ago.

@johnnyfelcher8156

6 жыл бұрын

Oh sorry, just realised what you meant. He forgot to put it in lmao.

@Daisytheduck420

5 жыл бұрын

IDK man HECK

@jaygill5582

5 жыл бұрын

Full of devils.

@Daisytheduck420

5 жыл бұрын

nb

Lol, Tasmania is apart of Australia but you didn’t seem to include it, get it right

Australia should be renamed to Koala Empire to avoid future mistakes.

@tentathesane8032

6 жыл бұрын

well, it should've been the Emu Empire ever since they defeated the Austalians in the Great War

@tubekulose

6 жыл бұрын

Koala Lumpur

2:24, Vanuatu is pronounced with the stress on the Van and the Ah not the Nu. It sounded so weird haha :)

amazing channel. my questions have been answered!!

It is lil bit confusing when austrians immigrate to Australia and become citizen there.

You could do a video about the origin of the names of Continents. That sounds fun.

Osten means the cheese in Danish :) The cheese realm.

@perfectloser55

7 жыл бұрын

Shivering Isles.

@FirstNameLastName-gu1mu

7 жыл бұрын

In Norwegian too.

@Oddme100

7 жыл бұрын

But Østerrike is still a combination of the words Øst=East & Rike=Realm. :)

@FirstNameLastName-gu1mu

7 жыл бұрын

Vi elsker Norge og Danmark.

@TheBarser

7 жыл бұрын

We know :) He just kept talking about Osten Reich in the video. In Danish it is called Østrig which actually means East rich. It should probably be called østrigE here instead, so it would mean east reich :D

I'm german and I can't stop laughing about the way you pronounce "Österreich" :D

In Europe we still call Poland "east Germany" : )

Poor tasmania

you said black stump. are you a hello internet fan by any chance? O.O

@tybushnell9819

7 жыл бұрын

Yes I believe CGP Grey has been in one or two of Name Explain's videos.

@NameExplain

7 жыл бұрын

+TheLizzerd It's hard to be an educational youtuber and not be a Hello Internet fan.

@TheDeathopper

7 жыл бұрын

Name Explain I subscribed just because of that Hello Internet reference. And because your videos are awesome.

So useful video, I love it.. keep it up

I thought of a word for it; "coincidence of similis" 0:22 He mixes almost everything up, read on he mixed up APEC and OPEC.

I'm really annoyed that there is no Tasmania in the Australia picture. I don't even live there

It's just because English speakers are bad at pronouncing foreign names and/or tend to warp/change them a lot. Example: Why is Germany not Deutschland?

@MegaBallPowerBall

7 жыл бұрын

RogerWilco Because Germany produced a lot of barbarian tribes and so the people around them named the land after whichever tribe slaughtered them.

@MessiahComing

7 жыл бұрын

Germans and Dutch were all collectively called Dutch. German is a relatively new way to refer to the Germans to differentiate them from those we call Dutch today. Deutsch and Dutch are cognates that mean the same thing. The primary difference is that Dutch is a low German language, like Bavarian, while Deutsch is high German.

@Scalloops

7 жыл бұрын

In Latin the name for the region was Germania. In German, it was Deutschland.

@MessiahComing

7 жыл бұрын

Czallo Yes, it was. But calling the Deutscher Volk German is new. It was barely a hundred years ago that we called them Dutch. That's why the Amish are called Pennsylvania Dutch, even though they're not Dutch.

@Jakromha

7 жыл бұрын

Dutch was Low Dutch and German was High Dutch. When the rest of the world changed Low Dutch to Low Lands in order to make the distinction clearer when the Low Dutch seperated from the High Dutch 'Holy Roman Empire', the English decided to instead change High Dutch to German.

Interesting, I have always thought that Austr- is used to refer to something belonging south, didn't know it meant east for Austria. Another similar word, Austronesian, is used to define the ethnolinguistic group of people living in maritime Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. They are a large language family like Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European.

Omg I recognize the song at the beginning of the video! It’s Lord of the Land by Kevin Macleod, I knew it immediately because it’s the music that plays in the birch biome of Lumber Tycoon 2.

I wonder if that is where the name "Austin" came from.

i never knew i wanted to knoew this but it is 3 in the morning and now i know that i wanted to know this

I always used to get confused about the both. In school days while reading about Napoleonic wars I used to think why would Australia go to war with Napoleon but actually it's Austria.

great video - even better if with correct pronunciation. Thanks - synonyms for coincidences - parallelism, serendipity, synchronicity . .

0:07 and Hitler sorry, I had to

@paraweld9838

7 жыл бұрын

I don't get it

@paraweld9838

7 жыл бұрын

Anri Apilis oh I see

@dozzzor

7 жыл бұрын

but we austrians made him german and as exchange we made Beethoven austrian :D

@annm.6212

7 жыл бұрын

Florian ĸarl indeed we did, and Mozart too.

@aanold1234

7 жыл бұрын

Bosscaat

*Looks at title* Oh. Oh no. Oooooooooooh nooooooooooo. Please don' tell me people actually think these countries have even the slightest to do with each other.

@Crick1952

7 жыл бұрын

Erik István Fejes When everything was starting in the Ukraine in 2014, a news station polled people and 60% thought that the US should go to war with Russia to protect Ukraine. When asked where it is on a map 20% thought that it was in the Dakotas... Never underestimate the stupidity of the average person. And then remember that half of the population is stupider than them.

@MaxwellTornado

7 жыл бұрын

Crick1952 Pfft, that's America you're talking about. Of course you're going to find a lot of idiots there.

@MrLittlelawyer

7 жыл бұрын

Trust me, go anywhere else in the world (except maybe, scandanavia, or something) and you will find just as stupid, if not far stupider people.

Austria's capital is ''VIENNA'' while austrailia's capital is "SYDNEY" and ppl from austria are called "AUSTRIANS" while ppl from australia are called "AUSTRALIANS" or "AUSSIES". like if u want me to blackmail justin bieber

@blaxlankoca6528

7 жыл бұрын

australia's capital is canberra not sydney...

@beandiesel974

7 жыл бұрын

Blaxlan Koca Mkay

more than a coincidence, auster and east/ost have the same PIE root both meaning dawn (or where the sun rises). the word for where the sun rises then started to take the meaning of South in Latin.

lel I have accidently typed Austria instead of Australia a few times... in fact I did it typing this...

@aperson5135

7 жыл бұрын

good thing I spotted it before commenting lel

@Itspietertime

7 жыл бұрын

Ronnie Johnson Good one!

@matheusb.dambrowski4639

7 жыл бұрын

Ronnie Johnson Lol.thought your profile picture was a bit of dirt on my screen

@aperson5135

7 жыл бұрын

LOL

Explain if there are Turkeys in Turkey please

Interesting video, really good.

I´m from Austria and i never knew this. Thank you for your video :)

If we just referred to country names in their native languages we wouldn't have this problem. Even if our pronunciation is way diff.

@warxdrum

7 жыл бұрын

FlagArmada Productions and we wouldn't have to remember different names for the same country in different languages.

@2712animefreak

7 жыл бұрын

Then you'd have Slovenija and Slovensko/Slovenská republika. Also, which native language? Is it "Suomi" or "Finland"? "Schweiz", "Suisse" or "Svizzera"?

@poldi2233

7 жыл бұрын

And would that also include languages? Because then you'd have Slovenščina and Slovenčina.

@poldi2233

7 жыл бұрын

Also, how would you work out adjectives (as in "Austrian"). Would you keep the original adjective (good luck remembering "österreichisch", use the English one (which would often sound way different to the country's name: Magyarország[original name of country] - Hungarian[adjective in English]) or try to form one from the original name of the country, but suited to your language? The last option sounds the most reasonable choice, but then the adjectives would change depending on the language, which defeats the purpose of using the same names for countries in different languages.

@IonicFalcon

7 жыл бұрын

This doesn't really work as there is a broad definition of native language. Is the the languages of the indigenous people of the area? Is the official languages? Is it just one language? This would make it a lot more difficult than the system we already use.

Similar names? One is called Australia, the other Österreich. How more different can it get?

@ruwiki

7 жыл бұрын

haha, right!

@ayuvelo

7 жыл бұрын

Well the international name is still Austria

@maxmustermann4149

7 жыл бұрын

Martin Dorfer The word you're looking for is English.

@TheAustrianAnimations87

7 жыл бұрын

english not german

@mini-mei

7 жыл бұрын

Latin, actually, but let's not split hairs "tu felix Austria" ;-)

Here are some other name similarities that I could think of (mostly) outside the United States: 1) Montreal vs. Monterrey, Mexico (or Monterey, California) 2) Budapest vs. Bucharest 3) Beirut vs. Bayreuth, Germany 4) Bimini Islands, Bahamas vs. Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands 5) Panama vs. Manama, Bahrain 6) Iran vs. Iraq 7) Iran vs. Irian Jaya (the latter is the old name for the Indonesian portion of the island of New Guinea) 8) Iran vs. Iraan, Texas 9) Ireland vs. Iceland 10) Tasmania vs. Tanzania 11) Syria vs. Styria (the latter is a state in Austria) 12) Gambia and Zambia 13) Slovenia and Slovakia 14) Switzerland and Swaziland 15) the Dominican Republic and Dominica 16) Guyana/Guiana and Guinea And within the United States: 1) Kansas vs. Arkansas 2) Pittsburgh vs. Plattsburgh, New York (the latter is *much* closer to Montreal than to New York City or even Albany) 3) Muncie, Indiana vs. Monsey, New York (the latter is a heavily Orthodox Jewish outer suburb of New York City)

Wow! Something i didn't know. Good job

A coincidence revolving around the same subject... how about "coincimilar"?

but they are not the same, one is Austria and one is Straya

@jankansi5679

7 жыл бұрын

The country where people coat themselves in sunbathing oil to make their skin bronze and the country where people coat themselves in sunscreen and watch in dramatic irony as the people from the other country laugh, coat themselves in oil and get skin cancer.

I didn't know about Australia yet. Pretty cool! But unfortunately it doesn't stop Austria always being confused with Australia (at least it always makes a funny story and reveal xD)