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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 18-Sep-2020 13:04:35 EDT lnxw48a1
   https://mastodon.social/@gamehawk/104886951788756113
   
   Sure enough, #TropStorm #Wilbur and Subtropical Storm #Alpha formed since some time last evening. We exhausted the 2020 Atlantic tropical cyclone names and have reverted to Greek letters. https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
   
   Speaking of #Greece, the "medicane" storm #Ionos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K7V041p4GE
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 18-Sep-2020 13:23:56 EDT lnxw48a1

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      https://nu.federati.net/url/275278 #Ionos.
      
      Google Translate had trouble with this page. You may have to look for cognates between Dutch and English.
      
      Incidentally, why is the language called "Dutch" and the nation called "The Netherlands", but the nationality is again called Dutch? Would @bobjonkman know the answer?
      1. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 21-Sep-2020 22:43:54 EDT Bob Jonkman

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         In the Netherlands (which the Dutch call "Nederland") the language is called "Nederlands", so that makes sense. Perhaps English speakers couldn't differentiate between "Nederlands" and "Deutsch", which corrupted to "Dutch".
         
         And why do we call the country "Germany" and the inhabitants "Germans" when they call their country "Deutschland" and themselves "die Deutsche"?