Re: Humorous Mistake on Goethe Institute Poster

Paul J Kriha <paul.nospam.kriha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Which two of them are from Eastern Europe?

I am confused. Is this a joke of some kind? :-)
From your email address and your name I assume that you
are a European, yet you pretend not to know which countries
are traditionally regarded as part of Western Europe,
Northern Europe, Central Europe, Southern Europe, and
Eastern Europe.

Central Europe, at least, is indeed problematic.

If you make a rule-of-thumb assumption that Polish is
spoken mostly in Poland, Bulgarian in Bulgaria, Czech
in Czech Republic, and Russian in Russia you can then
easily locate these countries on the map of Europe.

Well, a great many Germans would consider all of these countries
to be in Eastern Europe and would probably be quite surprised to
learn that Poles and Czechs understand themselves as Central
Europeans.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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