Peter Van Eynde

#XiranJayZhao did a wonderful video on translating country names from Chinese into English very literally (they are phonetic encodings but you can read out the meaning of the symbols)

Guess which country is "Darkness Overcoming Orchid" (乌克兰)?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kWdAsbWr9aE

Tells us it's... 🇺🇦

It's funny that I'm also (very) slowly studying Japanese and some of the meanings I go get, the sounds are of course different.

Greeting from "Comparing Profit Time" (比利时) 🤣🤣🤣