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[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 44 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

NATO logo but everyone is as entitled as the Fr*nch:

(Yes, I know most of these official languages use "NATO" but that's exactly what makes the French entitled.)

[-] wieson@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

If we call the french entitled, then the English are even more so

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago
[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Swedish is Nordatlantiska fördragsorganisationen

[-] Im_old@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

I guess AB is Germany? Just because they like to string their words together...

[-] diaphanous@feddit.org 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I guess, Atlantisches Bündnis (Atlantic Alliance) is what's written on Wikipedia, but I've never heard someone actually say that

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
Acronym Title Language
ОСАД Организацията на Северноатлантическия договор bg Bulgarian 🇧🇬
ОСАД Организација на Северноатлантскиот договор mk Macedonian 🇲🇰
SAA Severoatlantická aliance cs Czech 🇨🇿
NATO Nordatlantisk Traktat-Organisation da Danish 🇩🇰
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization en English 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦
Nato Den nordatlantiske traktats organisasjon no Norwegian 🇳🇴
ONAV Organisation des Nordatlantikvertrags de German 🇩🇪🇱🇺🇧🇪
ΟΒΑΣ Οργανισμός Βορειοατλαντικού Συμφώνου el Greek 🇬🇷
OTAN Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte es Spanish 🇪🇸
OTAN Organisation du traité de l`Atlantique nord fr French 🇫🇷🇨🇦🇱🇺🇧🇪
OTAN Organizzazione del Trattato dell`Atlantico del Nord it Italian 🇮🇹
OTAN Organização do Tratado do Atlântico Norte pt Portugese 🇵🇹
OTAN Organizația Tratatului Atlanticului de Nord ro Romanian 🇷🇴
PALO Põhja-Atlandi Lepingu Organisatsioon et Estonian 🇪🇪
PAPL Pohjois-Atlantin puolustusliitto fi Finnish 🇫🇮
ÉASS Észak-atlanti Szerződés Szervezete hu Hungarian 🇭🇺
AB Atlantshafsbandalagið is Icelandic 🇮🇸
ONAT Organisatioun vum Nordatlantik-Traité lb Luxembourgish 🇱🇺
ŠASO Šiaurės Atlanto Sutarties Organizacija lt Lithuanian 🇱🇹
ZALO Ziemeļatlantijas Līguma organizācija lv Latvian 🇱🇻
OSAS Organizacija Severnog Atlantičkog sporazuma me Montenegrin 🇲🇪
OSAS Organizacija Sjevernoatlantskog sporazuma sh Croatian 🇭🇷
NAVO Noord-Atlantische Verdragsorganisatie nl Dutch 🇳🇱🇧🇪
OTPA Organizacja Traktatu Północnoatlantyckiego pl Polish 🇵🇱
DAB Davvi-Atlántta bealuštuslihttu se North Sámi 🇳🇴
OSAZ Organizácia Severoatlantickej zmluvy sk Slovak 🇸🇰🇨🇿
SAPO Severnoatlantska pogodbena organizacija sl Slovene 🇸🇮
OTAV Organizata e Traktatit të Atlantikut Verior sq Albanian 🇦🇱🇲🇰
NAFO Nordatlantiska fördragsorganisationen sv Swedish 🇸🇪🇫🇮
KAAÖ Kuzey Atlantik Antlaşması Örgütü tr Turkish 🇹🇷
[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nord-Atlantik-Vertrags-Organisation or Nordatlantikvertragsorganisation (NAVO) would be German.
AB is Swedish, as everything in Sweden is an Aktiebolag ;)

(Just kidding. NATO in Swedish is Nordatlantiska fördragsorganisationen, NAFO)

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

You are correct. Although Sweden was not in NATO as of making of this meme, Swedish was still included as one of Finland's official languages. I used the corresponding Wikipedia articles for translation, and the German one happened to use Organisation des Nordatlantiksvertrags or ONAV.

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I did already notice the German version Wikipedia is using in your other detailed reply. By that way: Thank you for the detailed list including also minor languages one at first wouldn't have in mind.
As the OC was refering to the "German way" of composing nouns, I also wanted to show how that would look like in that case.
Anyway, there obviously are at least two ways to 'translate' NATO into German and Wikipedia chose the boring one ;)

[-] moody@lemmings.world 3 points 2 days ago

When NATO was formed, French was the lingua franca, and as such it made sense to put the French acronym on the logo. I suppose it's still there because they didn't want to change it.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

When do you think NATO was founded, 1850?

[-] moody@lemmings.world 2 points 1 day ago

French was the lingua franca until post WW2, when it started getting replaced with English. NATO was founded in 1949. It's not like French was completely supplanted in its use the day the bombs dropped on Japan. It's still heavily used internationally.

[-] plenipotentprotogod@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I like the way they solved this for the global reference time standard. In English it's called Cordinated Universal Time (CUT) but in French it's called Temps Universel Coordonné (TUC).

Apparently, both sides wanted to use their preferred acronym globally and wouldn't budge. The problem was only solved by eventual agreement to use UTC, which doesn't make sense in either language, but I guess at least it's fair that way.

[-] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

C’est l’OTAN.

Arrêtez votre anglocentrisme.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

French detected, opinion rejected

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

I always thought it's so the MiGs can read what's shooting them down in the rear view mirror

[-] Reality_Suit@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

The ol, Organized Treaty of Atlantean Northerners

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Will there be a French equivalent when POTATO becomes a thing?

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago
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