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[-] turdas@suppo.fi 10 points 5 days ago

I think the Estonian one ("Osta euroopat") is wrong and translates to "Buy parts of Europe".

I'm not fluent (just Finnish) so I don't know what the actual correct translation would be, though looking into it I believe it might have to be three words rather than two. "Osta Euroopast" might be close but would AFAIK translate to "Buy from Europe" rather than "Buy European".

[-] anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago

It translates to "Buy Europe". You are correct with "Osta Euroopast" but I think "Osta Euroopalist" or "Osta Euroopalikku" might also work.

[-] erebion@news.erebion.eu 6 points 5 days ago

Seeing languages such as Norwegian with an EU flag looks weird. :D

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

Do you have a list of the languages show?

[-] Staff@piefed.world 1 points 4 days ago

Compra Europeo is repeated. One's spanish. What's the other?

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago
[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

That's Compra Europeu

[-] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 2 points 5 days ago

As far as I know there are only 24 official languages in the EU...

[-] erebion@news.erebion.eu 8 points 5 days ago

"European languages", not official languages of the EU.

[-] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 6 points 5 days ago

It says 'official' in the title. If it were every (the word 'every' is also in the title) European language then there are many more than 36.

[-] Pilon23@feddit.dk 2 points 5 days ago

Every official European language. Not every official language of the EU. Georgian, among others, meets the criteria of the former, but not of the latter

[-] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 1 points 5 days ago

My country has four official languages not represented there. Georgia and Armenia are in Asia not in Europe. All of these have an EU flag as background. I think op is very confused with all these concepts and thus they've made a very confusing 'meme'.

[-] Tonuka@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago

that's not the EU flag, that's the flag of europe. Even Russia is part of the council of Europe and uses that flag

[-] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 1 points 5 days ago

Fair enough. Although Russia is not a member anymore.

[-] Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

Well one of these is Armenian. Armenia is neither in the EU nor in Europe except for the broadest possible, and I would say very dubious, definition of Europe. I feel like including Georgia but especially Armenia is hard to argue except from a cultural perspective where these nations are Christian and therefore sort of belong more in the European christian sphere rather than the west Asian Islamic sphere.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Love how kupuj evropsko is there beasically 4 times.

[-] moderatecentrist@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago
[-] ntd_quiet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Interesting how many of them start with a , which I'm assuming is a stop, maybe velar? Like, velar stop + mid/low back vowel. I don't do much etymology or cross-language linguistics, but I'm guessing those are . . . probably Slavic, but I see Dutch there too and maybe Spanish. The ones starting with vowels (aside from French) are I guess from Nordic countries? I think I was expecting (to identify) more romance languages. Neat!

[-] Europellinore@europe.pub 1 points 5 days ago

Design a sticker in different languages: https://hardno.eu/pick-language/euro-sticker

[-] matelt@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

Ok now do it in proto Indo-European!

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