Comments by "Jorge O" (@jorgeo4483) on "The origin of every US state's name" video.

My goodness, are you renaming some spanish states to your language? Can't belive it. California "calida fornia" in latin, "hot furnace". The novel you are talking about was written long after the name of that Spanish province and was probably inspired by it because it talks about a land rich in gold.
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@FilosophicalPharmer My best history teacher said that history is not a journalistic account of events, it is the analysis of cultures over time through the interpretation of known facts, from the point of view of then and now. If you want to settle for not talking about history, that's fine, we don't even know what happened yesterday for sure in the news. In my time, history was still taught in Spain at the highest level. In GB or the US it is no longer taught, it would be very annoying to have to give so many explanations.
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@TheHypnotstCollector From the latin "calida" "fornax" hot furnace. Hernán Cortés studied latin and laws at Salamanca University. Don't send any mexican or english source, they are not reliable.
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@davidjohnston4240 My godness. Oregon was discovered by us, the Spanish, and we gave it the name and it comes from the shape of the Oregon River, its curves. The territory was originally called "Orejones" or, as was common in the Spanish language at that time, the singularization "El Orejón" with the phonemic mutation, by transliteration from Spanish to English, of the letter j for g.
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@DangerAce It was called Florida because it was discovered on Easter Day in Spanish "Pascua Florida". You northamericans are really ignorants. Any Spaniard over 50 years old knows more about your country than you do.
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@FilosophicalPharmer I had a philosophy teacher at that same school who once told me: "You complain that we demand too much of you to pass, you don't know that when you finish here you will have to learn to forget everything you have learned." Not then, but later I understood what he wanted to tell me.
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