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Comment Re: Not the PSUs? The actual cables? (Score 3, Interesting) 137

Pakistan, in at least one of the local languages, translates as Land of the (people called) Paks.
Afghanistan -> Afghans
Turkmenistan -> Turkmen
and so forth.

Paki is a derogation (and a diminutive, besides). Pak would be the proper term, but because of our Latinate collective-nouning habits, it sounds wrong.

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