[pp.int.general] Iceland and International Politics

[Brendan Molloy]

Following that chain of logic though, why are we not the Corsair Party?

2011/4/13 NingúnOtro <ningunotro at hotmail.com>

> Not that extraordinary.
>
> Since when does a pirate call himself pejoratively a pirate?
>
> Considering the core content of Viking history... the namecalling was
> done abroad.
>
> The variant with royal consent... corsair seems not to be more popular
> either:
>
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kussari
>
>
> El mié, 13-04-2011 a las 19:24 +1000, Brendan Molloy escribió:
> > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sj%C3%B3r%C3%A6ningi
> >
> > Awesome.
> >
> > 2011/4/13 Chr1s Shea7s <yawnbox at gmail.com>
> >
> > > As an aside, for which I'm not sure if this relates, but Icelandic
> > > people don't have a word for "pirate." The closest translation that
> > > I've been told is "sea mugger". There are people who support the PP
> > > movement, but having an PP organization might be difficult because of
> > > this linguistic issue.
> [...]
>
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