[KS] Korean War (other terms)
Henny Savenije
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Sun Nov 20 14:30:48 EST 2005
At 05:02 AM 11/19/2005, you wrote:
>While I agree that we often think of Germany in
>the "Fatherland" context, I suspect that the
>DPRK is echoing the Soviet Union's "Great
>Fatherland War" (1941-45) rather than Nazi Germany.
I guess that would be a typical Anglophile
reaction, since in Dutch it's also Fatherland,
(and not motherland) and I guess the Scandinavian
countries do the same. Germans still speak about
Vaterland in a political sense, for instance für
Fürst und Vaterland, while Heimat is more used in daily life.
The French speak about Patrie and Spanisch and
Italians about patria, but I have no idea if they
have the same sentiment against the word fatherland.
Henny (Lee Hae Kang)
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