Timeline for Why do we call some countries a different name than the people of that country?
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| Apr 13, 2015 at 2:51 | comment | added | Kaz | Also, why do we use a word made of foreign parts, namely "exonym", to express the meaning "local name for a foreign place?" Is that for ironic effect? | |
| Jan 18, 2013 at 1:58 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackLinguist/status/292088617214541824 | ||
| Jan 3, 2013 at 17:09 | vote | accept | Aaron | ||
| Jan 3, 2013 at 17:07 | comment | added | Aaron | I may have misread that as "foreign" :p | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 6:18 | history | edited | acattle |
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| Jan 3, 2013 at 5:07 | answer | added | acattle | timeline score: 19 | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 4:15 | comment | added | H Stephen Straight | "Forensic", no; "historical", yes. Better for ELU, perhaps, though a multilingual sociolinguistic answer is probably called for. Any takers? | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 3:11 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 3, 2013 at 3:08 | comment | added | jlawler | "forensic-linguistics"? Category system fail. | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 2:54 | history | asked | Aaron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |