Czech terrorists? / Cesti teroriste?

Remember we had that big discussion about another offical name for the Czech Republic called “Czechia”? And remember most of us were not very happy about that name? Well, this is another conformation of our inherent instincts:

‘As new details about the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings came to light, confusion on Twitter led some users to mistake Chechnya for the Czech Republic.

The names of the distinct regions trended on the social network after two suspects in the bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, were described by family and law enforcement as “brothers from a Russian region near Chechnya.”

In response, Twitter users made crude “infographics” and shamed misinformed tweets, in an apparent effort to correct the Chechnya-Czech Republic error.’

(taken from Huffington Post)

After my husband read this article this is what he posted on Facebook:

‘I  guess I can untie my Czech wife now. I had her on lock down waiting for the FBI to show.’

🙂

CZ: Pamatujete si, jak jsme se bavili o alternativnim jmenu Ceske republiky – “Czechia”?  A pamatujete si, jak se vetsine to jmeno moc nezamlouvalo? Tak ted se nase inherentni instinkty potvrdily:

– prectete si vyse uvedeny uryvek z Huffington Post… a pak take koment meho manzela na Facebooku :).