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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech 45 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

NATO logo but everyone is as entitled as the Fr*nch:

(Yes, I know most of these official languages use "NATO" but that's exactly what makes the French entitled.)

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Swedish is Nordatlantiska fördragsorganisationen

[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I guess AB is Germany? Just because they like to string their words together...

[–] diaphanous 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I guess, Atlantisches Bündnis (Atlantic Alliance) is what's written on Wikipedia, but I've never heard someone actually say that

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
Acronym Title Language
ОСАД Организацията на Северноатлантическия договор bg Bulgarian 🇧🇬
ОСАД Организација на Северноатлантскиот договор mk Macedonian 🇲🇰
SAA Severoatlantická aliance cs Czech 🇨🇿
NATO Nordatlantisk Traktat-Organisation da Danish 🇩🇰
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization en English 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦
Nato Den nordatlantiske traktats organisasjon no Norwegian 🇳🇴
ONAV Organisation des Nordatlantikvertrags de German 🇩🇪🇱🇺🇧🇪
ΟΒΑΣ Οργανισμός Βορειοατλαντικού Συμφώνου el Greek 🇬🇷
OTAN Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte es Spanish 🇪🇸
OTAN Organisation du traité de l`Atlantique nord fr French 🇫🇷🇨🇦🇱🇺🇧🇪
OTAN Organizzazione del Trattato dell`Atlantico del Nord it Italian 🇮🇹
OTAN Organização do Tratado do Atlântico Norte pt Portugese 🇵🇹
OTAN Organizația Tratatului Atlanticului de Nord ro Romanian 🇷🇴
PALO Põhja-Atlandi Lepingu Organisatsioon et Estonian 🇪🇪
PAPL Pohjois-Atlantin puolustusliitto fi Finnish 🇫🇮
ÉASS Észak-atlanti Szerződés Szervezete hu Hungarian 🇭🇺
AB Atlantshafsbandalagið is Icelandic 🇮🇸
ONAT Organisatioun vum Nordatlantik-Traité lb Luxembourgish 🇱🇺
ŠASO Šiaurės Atlanto Sutarties Organizacija lt Lithuanian 🇱🇹
ZALO Ziemeļatlantijas Līguma organizācija lv Latvian 🇱🇻
OSAS Organizacija Severnog Atlantičkog sporazuma me Montenegrin 🇲🇪
OSAS Organizacija Sjevernoatlantskog sporazuma sh Croatian 🇭🇷
NAVO Noord-Atlantische Verdragsorganisatie nl Dutch 🇳🇱🇧🇪
OTPA Organizacja Traktatu Północnoatlantyckiego pl Polish 🇵🇱
DAB Davvi-Atlántta bealuštuslihttu se North Sámi 🇳🇴
OSAZ Organizácia Severoatlantickej zmluvy sk Slovak 🇸🇰🇨🇿
SAPO Severnoatlantska pogodbena organizacija sl Slovene 🇸🇮
OTAV Organizata e Traktatit të Atlantikut Verior sq Albanian 🇦🇱🇲🇰
NAFO Nordatlantiska fördragsorganisationen sv Swedish 🇸🇪🇫🇮
KAAÖ Kuzey Atlantik Antlaşması Örgütü tr Turkish 🇹🇷
[–] Successful_Try543 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Nord-Atlantik-Vertrags-Organisation or Nordatlantikvertragsorganisation (NAVO) would be German.
AB is Swedish, as everything in Sweden is an Aktiebolag ;)

(Just kidding. NATO in Swedish is Nordatlantiska fördragsorganisationen, NAFO)

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Successful_Try543 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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 ;)

[–] moody@lemmings.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When do you think NATO was founded, 1850?

[–] moody@lemmings.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] wieson 3 points 2 weeks ago

If we call the french entitled, then the English are even more so

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Still not right, since if everyone was as entitled as the French then Australia and New Zealand would have been part of NATO from day1.

France is the reason we aren't.