Empty Greene tries to own the Libs. Can't spell Columbus.

[underpants]

Link to tweet

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[WarGamer]

1. Cristoforo Colombo was his actual name.

[DFW]

2. @mtgreenee ??

An impostor, or just Republicanese at its most intricate ??

[WarGamer]

3. I don't understand the implication of your post.

I was simply commenting that the common name used is anglicized.

[jimfields33]

4. I think the person was talking about the Twitter page not her's.

Her Twitter handle is @repMTG so the tweet might not be from Greene herself.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. @repMTG is her official Twitter account.

@mtgreenee is her personal Twitter account. Someone else got @mtgreene.

[jimfields33]

10. Ah. Thank you.

[DFW]

5. She spells her name Greene and Greenee in the deleted tweet

I wasn't commenting on the explorer's Italian name, which appears to have been adapted from the original Iberian version anyway. In Catalunya, the locals claim that he was from the Kingdom of Aragón, and thus probably a native speaker of Catalan, in which case his real name would have been Colom, or Colón in Castilian. Texts in Catalan predate tests in Castilian by a century, so it's hard to tell what the lingua franca would have been in any given area in the late fifteenth century. Several Mediterranean cultures seem to want to claim the man as their native son.

[WarGamer]

6. Of course... I misunderstood. Thanks.

[DFW]

9. No sweat

I posted at haste, and the rest is history. I have three weeks from hell coming up, and am trying to prepare for them while perusing mail and DU at the same time. Distractions are inevitable, I fear.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Anglicized Indeed

The country is South America is spelled C-o-l-O-m-b-i-a. With an O.
Of course, it's a Spanish language country.
(Food's good there, too. I've been there at least a half dozen times.)

[Retrograde]

8. Maybe they observe that in Colombia

I observe "Encounter Day". Columbus by most accounts I've read was a decent sailor but a poor excuse for a human being.

[Tribetime]

12. This can't be real... is this the nightmare World we're living in

[Blue Owl]

13. She never fails to out-dumb herself...