Wouldn't people who live in the RLD be like, those, working in the RLD? Seems to be the case where I live. Though for us it's just one commercial zoned street. Um, or so I heard.
Wouldn't people who live in the RLD be like, those, working in the RLD? Seems to be the case where I live. Though for us it's just one commercial zoned street. Um, or so I heard.
Holland is a province, Netherlands is the word you should use.
Everyone that disagrees with that is a old redneck farmer wearing wooden shoes and a cheese addict
I didn't make myself clear enough I think..by "people who live there", I didn't mean directly in the RLD although some people do live there without working there. But in general I meant people who have to go through the RLD to get to work everyday. There are a lot of those :P
I'm Frisian, so calling me 'hollander' is a grave insult.
So I'm from the Netherlands, and I'm Dutch.
Funny thing: I know a lot of people from Rotterdam who get offended when anyone refers to them as 'hollander.' Even though Rotterdam is geographically in Holland, they're quite prone to anger when people remind them.
So it's probably important to note that the Netherlands is quite divided, and quite a lot of people in the Netherlands really dislike Holland. Mostly, this is because of civil wars and such way back.
I call it either Low countries or Holland because "the Netherlands" doesn't exist in my language.
How about this... in Slavic languages (mine included), the root word of the word that's used for Germany means "mute". Because of that, in my language, there's no difference between the words used for a mute person and a German person; Nijemac. Actually, sorry, a mute person is njemac. The pronunciation is identical though.
To make matters worse, in my language, Germans are sometimes called Švabi, after the region of Swabia.
In Romania we call you Olanda.
On the other hand, we also call the UK Anglia
And of course, we call Switzerland Elvetia. Because we can.
So, in general, sometimes when talking online I traduce is wrong, as Holland instead of Netherlands.