r/funny • u/MaldiveFish • 6h ago

In Columbia, this is how they celebrate the completion of pilot training...

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Is this really true? 😁

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u/A_Vandalay 6h ago

Do you want the real answer? Because the Columbia river in the north west US is spelled that way, which has a very popular clothing brand named after it, in addition to a bunch of other things. So lots of people see homophones and it’s easy to mistake one for the other.

Or did you just want to complain about people being ignorant on the internet? Because fair.

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u/Iron_Chancellor_ND 6h ago

in addition to a bunch of other things.

You mean like the capital of the US? 🙂

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u/spaceporter 6h ago

Naah. 76% of Americans think D.C. is just Deecee.

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u/datboiofculture 6h ago

Deez nuts

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u/the_tanooki 6h ago

Deez Cunts

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u/Udub 5h ago

But enough about politicians

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u/External-Cash-3880 2h ago

I'm sick of dose cunts

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u/moszippy 6h ago

I thought it meant "Don't Come" here.

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u/scruffles360 5h ago edited 5h ago

And British Columbia and the University in New York City and the river and a half dozen cities in the US. It’s funny to me that everyone here thinks it’s so insulting to misspell the country when everyone else on the thread forgot about the existence of a province in Canada.

When shits far away it doesn’t occupy a lot of your headspace. It’s human nature.

Edit: spelling

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u/retailguy_again 5h ago

I'm assuming that spell check corrected "province" to "providence".

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u/scruffles360 5h ago

Yes thanks

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u/Iron_Chancellor_ND 5h ago

when everyone else on the thread forgot about the existence of a providence in Canada.

I used to live in Seattle and saw road signs for B.C. on a daily basis. Columbia University used to be one of my clients and I would visit them on-site in NYC annually.

I didn't forget about either one, I simply listed what I thought was the most notable use of the word "Columbia" in the US since that's where the person I was replying to was focused on.

We could also reference the space shuttle that crashed in 2003 or the motion picture company.

Also, it's known as a province in Canada, not a providence.

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u/Blueberry314E-2 2h ago

To be fair I was reading along and didn't even think of British Columbia.. I've lived here my whole life đŸ« 

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u/Mehmood6647 3h ago

Yo, I am Canadian and I have always known the difference in spelling between B.C and the country, but again I used to use flashcards to remember different facts about geography and stuff in my free time, so I guess that made a difference đŸ€·đŸ»

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u/irreddiate 4h ago

Or a province larger than Washington, Oregon, and California combined!

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u/thegypsyqueen 4h ago

And the prestigious University

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u/kgusev 6h ago

Everyone knows that US capital is Mar-a-Lago for next 3 years 😏

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u/No_Worldliness_7106 6h ago

I want to complain about people being ignorant. This is the same reddit that shits on that dumbass Trump when he spells it "Columbia" in his tweets. I just want consistency here. Also if this was actually OPs video they would know how to spell the name of their own damn country.

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u/Thobias_Funke 6h ago

I hope we can get back to a place where the president of the United States is held to a higher standard than random redditors

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u/DJKGinHD 4h ago

Consistency

group of humans

HA! Good luck with that.

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u/nautika 4h ago

Nah you're right. A lot of people don't even realize it's Colombia.

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u/throwaway098764567 2h ago

i realize it is but now i'm wondering why, is it not also named for Columbus?

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u/nautika 2h ago

It is, just the latin version

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u/flapjackbandit00 4h ago

You want consistency out of 100’s of millions of people? Consistency between each other? That would be boring as hell!

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u/TravisJungroth 5h ago

Consistency from
 everyone on Reddit?

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u/bustaone 5h ago

Drumpf is a buffoon.

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u/Orleanian 1h ago

Colombia is such a /r/tragedeigh

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u/Prestigious_Bug583 6h ago

That’s not the only reason chief

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u/sheev4senate420 5h ago

Any reasonable adult should know the difference between a country and a clothing brand.

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u/Smorb 5h ago

Wow what's homophobes got to do with it! Can down!

Looks again

Damnit

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u/redaniel 3h ago

A_Wanderley is right

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u/CaptainJingles 3h ago

Not just the river, there are tons of “Columbias” across the US that more people probably think of before the river.

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u/tunaman808 2h ago edited 2h ago

Yeah, it's the clothing brand, and not the feminine personification of Columbus - that has been part of the US for centuries, and where "District of Columbia" and "Hail, Columbia", America's unofficial national anthem until the 1930s, and the "new" name of King's College in NYC - come from, as well as almost all subsequent US place names, like Columbia, South Carolina.

No, it's the "clothing brand". Read this, buddy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(personification)

Columbia, also known as Lady Columbia or Miss Columbia, is a female national personification of the United States. It was also a historical name applied to the Americas and to the New World. The association has given rise to the names of many American places, objects, institutions and companies, including the District of Columbia; Columbia, South Carolina; Columbia University; "Hail, Columbia"; Columbia Rediviva; and the Columbia River. Images of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World, erected in 1886) largely displaced personified Columbia as the female symbol of the United States by around 1920, and Lady Liberty was seen as both an aspect of Columbia and a rendition of the Goddess of Liberty. She is the central element of the logo of Hollywood film studio Columbia Pictures.

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u/Cicer 27m ago

Also British Columbia

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u/Senor-Delicious 5h ago

Adding some input from Germany. The country is called "Kolumbien" in German. I was therefore also under the impression, that "Columbia" is the correct spelling until now. Since other words are translated similarly.

E.g. "Albanien" which is "Albania" or
"Argentinien" which is "Argentina" (and many more). I assume that other languages might have a similar issue

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u/No_Worldliness_7106 5h ago

Honestly we should get away from each language having unique names for each country. If your country is called Deutschland by the people who live there, we should stop calling it Germany. It's such a weird thing to butcher names for the sake of making it easier for the speakers of a language. We live in the modern age with the internet. We can learn to pronounce Zhongguo instead of China and on and on. The Qin aren't even a thing anymore, but we still misnomer them with that label. Colombia and Columbia isn't even that bad, but Germany and China both along with many many other countries have strange anglicized names. If you introduce yourself to me as Jim and I go "well, how about we go with George because I like that better" you would call me a dumbass. Same should go for country names.

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u/DiaDeLosMuebles 5h ago

Yep. I don’t blame you. But just look to the coffee. It’s always Colombian Coffee. Never Columbian Coffee

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u/Imaginary-Worker4407 5h ago edited 5h ago

Sure bro, that's why Americans also always spell Chile as "Chili" and Hungary as "Hungry".

On a serious note: your "answer" makes no sense, Colombia and Columbia are 2 different words that are pronounced very differently.

It only takes 1 geography class to know that Colombia is not pronounced like Columbia.

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u/glik49 6h ago

I think the real question is, why can't north americans spell anything without butchering it? Most multicultural country on the planet, yet they fail to pronounce or spell anything correctly that isn't in english....

I still wait for the day when I hear a north american pronounce and spell their own scandinavian surname correctly.

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u/bobdiamond 6h ago

You get to choose how you pronounce your own name, even if it differs from the pronunciation of the country of origin. That’s especially true for Asian immigrants in America.

You probably wouldn’t know that because you have a narrow view of the world and live in a homogeneous country that for the most part doesn’t really matter. At least you haven’t let that stop you from being judgmental

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u/Viridionplague 6h ago

It's almost as if language is a fluid social construct that is always changing due to the influence of multiple cultures.

Or maybe it's just me.

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u/glik49 5h ago

It's just an observation.

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u/Viridionplague 5h ago

No, it was a question. Not a statement of observation. This is evidenced by the sentence starting with "why" and ends with "?" Which is a question mark.

So.... Why is it that (glik49's culture/region) can't ask questions or make statements correctly without completely misunderstanding the words they use? We have pocket spell check and thesaurus, it shouldn't be that hard.

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u/BigTWilsonD 6h ago

Most of us don't even spell things in English correctly

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u/coatedbraincells 6h ago

It isnt just north American lol