no but it is potentially the start of the reverse happening, straights being put in the place of gay people, being kicked out of their homes and/or being killed because of their sexuality, if that starts it’ll set off a viscous loop that we may not be able to break out of
tbh i think a lot of straight people being ‘clueless’ are just them adamantly denying gay people exist
i’ll never forget that woman who went to buy a bed with her wife and the saleswoman would not accept they were lesbians even when they said ‘we’re married’ the saleswoman had a pained look on her face and asked ‘friend-married?’ they’re not clueless or stupid they’re just monsters
dane means lowlander and mark is march as in borderlands so denmark is the “lowlanders’ borderland”
can’t believe we’re literally defined by being next to germany and flat af lmao
comparatively sweden is “Svea’s realm” and norway is “the way north”
I always thought Norge was “norr rike” aka the Northern Realm, or are you thinking of the translation of the english names?
Just assumed that, because we swedish speakers says the rge/rige in sverige and Norge the same… But, totally open to that I assumed wrong.
A fun tid bit about Svea! Svea is of unsure etymology, but it might come from sven which translated to *drumroll*
Man/Person
Svea the kingdom of… People. Well, at least that consistant with so many other names of peoples and/or countries haha
The name Norge actually comes from Danish, which had a big influence on Bokmål iirc. The nynorsk word for the country is Noreg, which is closer to the original Norse name Norðvegr (Norð=North, Vegr=Way/road)
Netherlands means nether lands
japan is named after several mispronunciations through multiple different accents.
