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mi_guida

Flist to the rescue!

Apr 08, 2008 16:36

A person with citizenship granted by Germany is German.

A person with citizenship granted by Switzerland is Swiss.

A person with citizenship granted by Australia is Australian.

What the blazes is someone with citizenship granted by Liechtenstein(Yes, this is a serious question. It's really bugging me. I've only just realised Liechtenstein isn' ( Read more... )

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Serious answer, omg! jacinthsong April 8 2008, 16:06:32 UTC

Am pretty sure you can use Liechtensteiner as an adjective :)

Re: Serious answer, omg! mi_guida April 8 2008, 16:57:44 UTC

OK :) Thank you!

Still too many letters, though. I think I will call him a Lietch, pronounced cunningly to sound like a slimy animal (to be fair, he was trying to get out of legal obligations in a very sneaky slimy way). Plus it's quicker to type/write! :p

Re: Serious answer, omg! jacinthsong April 10 2008, 09:45:33 UTC

Hee :) I sympathise about being bugged by these sorts of things, last term I completely tied myself into knots about how to refer to the pre-1948 Jewish population in Palestine (Israelis obviously inaccurate, and referring to 'the Jews' feels icky - despite the fact that Israeli polscis quite happily talk about 'world Jewry', yeah). Eventually I just stuck with Yishuv, despite that not being 100% accurate...

Re: Serious answer, omg! mi_guida April 10 2008, 21:11:40 UTC

'World Jewry'...? Eurgh. That's just... I cannot comprehend a situation in which I'd ever want to use that phrase, ever!

It's daft - I always focus on these little things that don't matter. I try to tell myself that it means I understand all the things that do matter..!

ktroo85 April 8 2008, 16:23:06 UTC

I'm assuming that the adjective is Liechtenstein or Liechtensteiner. The article talks about "Liechtensteiners having a life expectancy" but also about "Liechtenstein taxes/ruling prince" and for other countrys it would be French/German/English taxes which is what makes me think both are acceptable

mi_guida April 8 2008, 16:30:16 UTC

See, this is why I'm confused. Google also throws up Lietchtensteinian... which just has too many letters for me to spell. Not as bad as Gabcíkovo-Nagymaros though...

Re: Serious answer, omg! wormwood_pearl April 8 2008, 17:27:18 UTC

That would have been my guess.

For extra credit, detail the differences between the terms Malayan, Malaysian and Malay, and discuss which combinations of the three are possible.

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Re: Serious answer, omg! evath April 8 2008, 22:58:13 UTC

I'm part Malteser.

ohajiki April 9 2008, 09:11:32 UTC

And here comes the comedy answer:

Lickies