In reply to
https://www.warlight.net/Forum/88174-buyling-warlight-against-greece?Offset=27
If you speaking any language with latin characters,you must pay taxes to Greece(all the modern languages even arabic comes from ancient greek).
Ehm, no... According to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabet (yes, I am using Wikipedia as a source; if you have a better source, feel free to correct me of course):
Egyptian hieroglyphs -> Proto-Sinaitic -> Phoenician -> Aramaic -> Syriac -> Nabataean ->
ArabicEgyptian hieroglyphs -> Proto-Sinaitic -> Phoenician ->
Greek -> Etruscan ->
LatinSo, your statement the Arabic alphabet derives from the Greek alphabet is simply not true.
While you are right the Latin alphabet does derive from it, I see no reason to "pay taxes" for it; do you pay taxes to Congo (or a country somewhere around there) everytime you make fire, or to Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia) when you use a wheel? Or to Eqypt, for your alphabet?
Even if an alphabet could be copyrighted or patented, that only lasts for a couple dozen years; by any reasonable standard (and most unreasonable ones) both the Greek and Latin alphabets now belong to all of mankind.
If you mean rich the people of Scandinavia,well you might be right but what can you do the money if you haven't got ''life'' to spend it.
If that is how you feel about money, why do you even care whether Germany is going to give (or owes) you any money?
Regarding Makedonia:
- The Netherlands consists of twelve provinces, among them Noord-Holland ("North Holland") and Zuid-Holland ("South Holland"), yet most foreigners mean the entire country when they say "Holland".
- Both the Netherlands and Belgium have provinces called "Limburg".
- The Netherlands also has a province called "Noord-Brabant" ("Northern Brabant"), which is in the South of the country. In the middle of Belgium there used to be a province called "Zuid-Brabant" (Southern Brabant"). Those do not border eachother; what should've been called "Central Brabant" got named "Antwerp" instead.
- The Northern part of Belgium is called Vlaanderen ("Flanders"), the Southern part is Wallonië ("Walloon"). Two of the provinces of Vlaanderen are called West-Vlaanderen ("West Flanders") and Oost-Vlaanderen ("East Flanders"). By the way, East Flanders is in the West; except for West Flanders, the entire rest of the country is to the East of it.
- (The following might sound familiar.) One of the Walloon provinces is called Luxemburg... Yes, exactly the same as the country of Luxemburg which it borders. Of course, the country of Luxemburg also has a province called Luxemburg (which contains a city called Luxemburg).
None of the above ever causes any trouble.
Only Greece has a problem with the country Makedonia; as soon as Greece leaves the European Union, we can stop the whole "FYROM" thing and simply call them Makedonia.
To make matters worse, they have been a candidate member for a while now; if Greece leaves and they join the European Union, who will stop them if they suggest "the other Makedonia" be renamed "TCGROM" (The-Current-Greek-Region-of-Makedonia)...?
Yes, I'm aware it's not really about "confusing names", but more about "history". Still, if you're going to demand back property (which once belonged to your great-great-grandparents) from the great-great-grandchildren of the people who stole it... where do you want to draw the line? You yourself make a big deal out of Greece's long history; don't you think that, at some point in those thousands of years, a Greek army stole something or annexed an area?
If you want Makedonia back, what excuse do you have for not giving back (or paying reparations for) each and every single thing ever stolen (or destroyed) by Greek armies? Because "Oh come on, that's ridiculously long ago!" certainly doesn't work, since that would mean you have to leave Makedonia alone too...
TL;DR: Stop complaining about Makedonia; if we can handle the utter mess explained above, I'm sure you can manage with Makedonia (besides, don't you have more important matters to worry about?).
