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    Amerikaner wird auf den Boden der Tatsachen zurückgeholt


    Amerikaner wird auf den Boden der Tatsachen zurückgeholt

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    Von sanandrios

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    1. WalloonNerd on

      They should be happy we always kindly forget to add a German acronym

    2. tomvorlostriddle on

      I’m with the American on this one, this is hard

      Not only that each service is divided by two or three geographical regions in the same country, but then on top some of them have multiple acronyms for the same one…

    5. Wafkak on

      He should be happy this is post mergers
      We used to have NMBS (trains) NMVB (regional tram/bus) MIVB/STIB(Brussels) MIVG(Gent) MIVA(Antwerpen) STIL(Liege) STIC(Charleroi) STIT(Tournai)
      Imagine having diffent apps for all those and missing a letter as a tourist, only to notice after you bought a ticket.

    6. god-ducks-are-cute on

      It’s not the Americans, you realize most countries don’t do this either right ? It’s a pretty bloated naming strategy, you need a reality check if you don’t realize it’s a bad design 😓

    7. 66942342098 on

      Ah yes, the USA, the country that’s definitely not the world champion in using acronyms and abbreviations for literally everything and definitely isn’t an abbreviation itself. Very good point to make, indeed.

    8. m1bl4nTw0 on

      I remember seeing a post once of an American asking why Germans call their country Deutschland instead of Germany… (something among those lines).

    10. AStove on

      They know it, because of the OTAN/NATO thing, which is retarded also.

    11. White_rabbit0110 on

      Please dear American tourist, take a train and go to the Bergen station 🚉. It will be very interesting to see how you will make it when we know that station in is called in french “gare de Mons.” 🙈🙊

    12. Mr-Doubtful on

      I mean it’s honestly kinda dumb these are separated at all, IMHO.

    13. dhatereki on

      I was just in Netherlands and you cannot do anything reliably without 9292 helping you with all the different services for metros, trains, buses etc. Some of which don’t even have online tickets.

    14. Ccb303 on

      It’s not hard, it’s just stupid. And the fact that there needs to be double / triple layers of government and language in order to prevent regional and linguistic pearl clutching is at the heart of this country’s dysfunction.

    16. MiddleAgedGM on

      Well Akshually,

      Belgium is not a trilingual or bilingual country. Belgium is a country where on its territory, three languages are spoken. Flanders is mostly monolingual Dutch, Wallonia is mostly monolingual French. This is even reflected in the constitution and the language laws. In Antwerp you will never be addressed by the city administration in French, and you will never receive papers in Dutch from the city of Charleroi. Even if you would request it specifically in that language.

      The only exception is Brussels of course, which is entirely bilingual French and Dutch.

      And then there are specific communities that have facilities for another language. Bever, Drogenbos, Herstappe, Kraainem, Linkebeek, Mesen, Ronse, Sint-Genesius-Rode, Spiere-Helkijn, Voeren, Wemmel, and Wezembeek-Oppem are Dutch-speaking communities with facilities for French-speakers. Enghien, Comines-Waasten, Mouscron, and Flobecq are French-speaking communities with facilities for French-speakers. Malmedy and Waimes are French-speaking communities with facilities for German-speakers. Amel, Büllingen, Burg-Reuland, Bütgenbach, Eupen, Kelmis, Lontzen, Raeren, and Sankt-Vith are German-speaking communities with facilities for French-speakers.

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