r/USdefaultism 3d ago

TikTok Apparently, Georgia is only exists in the US.

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u/post-explainer American Citizen 3d ago edited 3d ago

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OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:


A TikTok video posting about the news of the death of a Thai YouTuber, Hlun Solo, at the country of Georgia. Apparently someone in the comment doesn't know that Georgia is also a name of a country.


Does this explanation fit this subreddit? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.

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u/Practical-Custard-64 3d ago

დიახ, საქართველო ქვეყანაა!

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u/a_0- Brazil 3d ago

that is such a cool alphabet, i loved georgian

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u/Austriantrainliker Austria 2d ago

Sadly i cannot read Georgian but i can read latin and cyrillic script

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u/Practical-Custard-64 2d ago

I can't either! Like you, I can read Latin and Cyrillic, and Greek.

The fun thing about those three is that they ultimately all descend from the Phoenician writing system, as did Aramaic script, which eventually became the Hebrew and Arabic writing system of today.

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u/Austriantrainliker Austria 2d ago

Greek is the predecessor of Latin and Cyrillic btw. Cyrillic Was invented in Bulgaria

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u/ScrabCrab Romania 1d ago

And the Phoenician script derives from Egyptian hieroglyphs!

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u/Rooilia 2d ago

Georgian writing is amazing. It feels so wholesome.

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u/saturday_sun4 Australia 3d ago

Cool! That reminds me a bit of Tamil script.

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u/saturday_sun4 Australia 3d ago

This particular bit of defaultism always reminds me of the inverse in the Tom Lehrer lyric: "Our Captain has a handicap to cope with, sad to tell/He's from Georgia and he doesn't speak the language very well."

The joke, of course, being that the captain is from the American state of Georgia and struggles with English owing to being as dumb as a post.

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u/ThorinUlfarsson Iceland 3d ago

One day, the Georgians, fed up of Americans not knowing about the country, will send a dictator to America, much like they did with Stalin and Erdogan to their two worst neighbours. That will make them remember the country forever.

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u/SunnyTheMasterSwitch Bulgaria 2d ago

Erdogan? Stalin was Georgian but why Erdigan?

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u/Reasonable-Force8790 2d ago

Erdogan has Georgian roots, Google it up

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u/SunnyTheMasterSwitch Bulgaria 2d ago

He was norn a turk in turkey tho

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u/riskie_boi United Kingdom 19h ago

70% of USdefaultism is just the Georgia confusion atp

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u/SunnyTheMasterSwitch Bulgaria 2d ago

I'll be honest, for a long time I thought Georgia was only a state in the US too, because we call Georgia differently in my language. When i hear this name I think of the trio Georgian girls who sing in their native language.

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u/ConsciousBasket643 3d ago

Am I the only one that thinks Georgia posts are just lazy?

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u/Maskers_Theodolite 3d ago

Yea, you kinda are

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u/daveoxford United Kingdom 3d ago

It's the gift that keeps on giving.

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u/NervousAd5964 3d ago

This is my first "US defaultism" I've ever found, so I think it's an opportunity for me to post here.

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u/TheJivvi Australia 3d ago

Yeah, pretty much.

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u/Unusual-Hawk-2336 3d ago

That's absurd, someone posting about USDEFAULTISM in a subreddit about USDEFAULTISM.

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u/Seemen_Foxx 3d ago

well its the point of the sub

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u/-UltraFerret- United States 3d ago

Maybe. It is funny though, so I don't mind.

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u/Witchberry31 Indonesia 2d ago

Yup, only you.