When NATO was formed, French was the lingua franca, and as such it made sense to put the French acronym on the logo. I suppose it’s still there because they didn’t want to change it.
French was the lingua franca until post WW2, when it started getting replaced with English. NATO was founded in 1949. It’s not like French was completely supplanted in its use the day the bombs dropped on Japan. It’s still heavily used internationally.
You are correct. Although Sweden was not in NATO as of making of this meme, Swedish was still included as one of Finland’s official languages. I used the corresponding Wikipedia articles for translation, and the German one happened to use Organisation des Nordatlantiksvertrags or ONAV.
I did already notice the German version Wikipedia is using in your other detailed reply. By that way: Thank you for the detailed list including also minor languages one at first wouldn’t have in mind.
As the OC was refering to the “German way” of composing nouns, I also wanted to show how that would look like in that case.
Anyway, there obviously are at least two ways to ‘translate’ NATO into German and Wikipedia chose the boring one ;)
NATO logo but everyone is as entitled as the Fr*nch:
NAFO CONFIRMED
Swedish is Nordatlantiska fördragsorganisationen
When NATO was formed, French was the lingua franca, and as such it made sense to put the French acronym on the logo. I suppose it’s still there because they didn’t want to change it.
When do you think NATO was founded, 1850?
French was the lingua franca until post WW2, when it started getting replaced with English. NATO was founded in 1949. It’s not like French was completely supplanted in its use the day the bombs dropped on Japan. It’s still heavily used internationally.
I guess AB is Germany? Just because they like to string their words together…
I guess, Atlantisches Bündnis (Atlantic Alliance) is what’s written on Wikipedia, but I’ve never heard someone actually say that
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You are correct. Although Sweden was not in NATO as of making of this meme, Swedish was still included as one of Finland’s official languages. I used the corresponding Wikipedia articles for translation, and the German one happened to use Organisation des Nordatlantiksvertrags or ONAV.
I did already notice the German version Wikipedia is using in your other detailed reply. By that way: Thank you for the detailed list including also minor languages one at first wouldn’t have in mind.
As the OC was refering to the “German way” of composing nouns, I also wanted to show how that would look like in that case.
Anyway, there obviously are at least two ways to ‘translate’ NATO into German and Wikipedia chose the boring one ;)
If we call the french entitled, then the English are even more so