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Leichtenstein, because I just learned of it for the first time just last year. I still know next to nothing about it.

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It speaks German, and has one of the highest per capita incomes, and one of the lowest unemployment rates. Also, it's the only country to exist strictly within the Alps. And also, it is called Liechtenstein.

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They also have a national football cup.

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They are also ruled by a prince who is able to veto laws passed by the parliament.

They are also aliens from space, what came here to mate with beautiful Earth women.

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I was really surprised to learn that there is a country called Eritrea, and that it's in Africa! By the name itself it more suits to be some fantasy elvish kingdom, than an African state

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It also happens to be a scary, very repressive dictatorship. Some have called it the "North Korea of Africa".

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In Swedish we say "Långtbortistan". "Långt bort" means "far away", and "-istan" is pretty self-explanatory.

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It's all over the Swedish newspapers, because they have a Swedish-Eritrean citizen imprisoned there. Dawit Isaak. He has never had a trial.

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I actually knew that!
I always knew it was a good idea to read Moomin comics in swedish instead of finnish.

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Abolutely out of topic
Finnish has also a saying "Painu Helsinkiin!" 'Go to ?'
I know where the city is, but I really suppose that's so old a saying that Helsinki wasn't a very remarkable place.
Maybe it's a substitution of Hellheim > hell

It does? I've never even heard that one... But then again, there might be a logical reason why such an expression would be missing from my dialect (namely, I live in Helsinki). In any case, it's quite obviously a G-rated version of painu helvettiin, which simply means 'go to hell'.

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Haha. In Czech, there's a very similar expression. You can substitute Prčice, a town in central Bohemia, for "prdel" (ass) in expressions like "Do prdele" ("Go into an ass", but it's similar to "Damn it").

Also, Karaganda is a great name. Like Timbuktu, it just sounds exotic and far away. When I visited Belgrade, I remember there were two buses that I always saw whose final destination was a place called "Karaburma", which was located in "Palilula". I really wanted to go there, because the names just sounded so amazing. Eventually I was talked out of it because they're apparently just ordinary suburban neighborhoods.

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Altho since about 5 years I have memorized every country by heart, the one most people don't know about is Tuvalu.

For most of every country I know exists, I learned about them while reading The Onion's "Our Dumb World", except Fiji, Marshall Islands, Kosovo, South Sudan and that Tuvalu example above (which are missing for some reason).

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People don't know about Tuvalu?..

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My wife merges /ð/ with /v/, and as a result she pronounces both "Tuvalu" and "too the loo" [tʰu:vəlu:] (or there abouts) which often leads to a few laughs.

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What dialect does she speak? Isn't it quite common that word-initial [ð] becomes [d] or something, even for those with th-fronting in other environments?

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She's from around High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. Unfortunately neither of her parents have th-fronting and the only own of her friends from around that area that I've met doesn't seem to have th-fronting either, but her accent's a bit more RP-esque. So I can't say whether the use of [və] in place of [ðə] is a feature common to that area or just something specific to her.

She also uses [v] in words like "that", "this", "than" and [f] in "thin", "thick", "thorn", etc.

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Nobody watches .tv anymore.

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