Jump to content

2014 FIFA World Cup Brasil™ - Europe vs. America


LucaAltieri
[[Template core/global/global/poll is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.]]

Recommended Posts

 

Holy s***.

 

Can't wait to see that Vine.

 

What vine?

 

Jeremy

 

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sportsworldcards.com/ekmps/shops/sportsworld/images/real-madrid-geremi-njitap-198-panini-1999-2000-uefa-champions-league-football-sticker-45910-p.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sportsworldcards.com/real-madrid---geremi-njitap-198-panini-19992000-uefa-champions-league-football-sticker-45910-p.asp&h=400&w=281&tbnid=IYsXwrNYZMXg1M:&zoom=1&docid=8o4eOp3qn4Lv3M&hl=en&ei=rt2pU4aZILKf7AbZmIGwDA&tbm=isch&client=safari&ved=0CD4QMygYMBg

Link to post
Share on other sites

Guest firetotheworks

Is Cote d'ivore (sp) the official ENGLISH name for Ivory Coast? I still don't understand why they seem like the exception to the rule.

Link to post
Share on other sites

Is Cote d'ivore (sp) the official ENGLISH name for Ivory Coast? I still don't understand why they seem like the exception to the rule.

 

Anyone still calling them Ivory Coast should be forced to ring the parents of a soldier who has died serving his country in Afghanistan, and tell them their reasons.

Link to post
Share on other sites

Is Cote d'ivore (sp) the official ENGLISH name for Ivory Coast? I still don't understand why they seem like the exception to the rule.

 

The coastline of the modern state is not quite coterminous with what the 15th- and 16th-century merchants knew as the "Teeth" or "Ivory" coast, which was considered to stretch from Cape Palmas to Cape Three Points and which is thus now divided between the modern states of Ghana and Ivory Coast (with a minute portion of Liberia).[16][12][18][15] But it retained the name through French rule and independence in 1960.[19] The name had long since been translated literally into other languages,[n 3] which the post-independence government considered to be increasingly troublesome whenever its international dealings extended beyond the Francophone sphere. Therefore, in April 1986, the government declared Côte d'Ivoire (or, more fully, République de Côte d'Ivoire[21]) to be its formal name for the purposes of diplomatic protocol, and officially refuses to recognize or accept any translation from French to another language in its international dealings.[20][22][23]

 

Despite the Ivorian government's request, the English translation "Ivory Coast" (sometimes "the Ivory Coast") is still frequently used in English, by various media outlets and publications.[n 4][n 5]

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cote_d%27ivore

Link to post
Share on other sites

Guest firetotheworks

Is Cote d'ivore (sp) the official ENGLISH name for Ivory Coast? I still don't understand why they seem like the exception to the rule.

 

Anyone still calling them Ivory Coast should be forced to ring the parents of a soldier who has died serving his country in Afghanistan, and tell them their reasons.

In one day Ian W has admitted he's been Ian Wrong and Ian Wright has also been Ian Wrong....Aliens.

Link to post
Share on other sites

Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
×
×
  • Create New...