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From: suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Re: Harbors and harbours
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 12:33:23 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 12:33:23 1986
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> In article <395@snow.warwick.UUCP> rpt@warwick.UUCP (Richard Tomlinson) writes:
> >Once again I'm going to flame you Yanks for your misspellings. Even if we
> >as far as to suggest that Germany should be called Deutschland (sp?) .
> - K/obenhavn (Da), K"openhamn (Sw), Copenhagen (Eng)
> - Helsing/or (Da), Elsinor (Eng)
> - Stockholm (Sw, Eng), Estockolmo (sp? Sp), Tukholma (Fi)
> - G"oteborg (Sw), Gothenburg (Eng)
> - Moskva (translit. Ru), Moscow (Eng)
> - Svalbard (No), Spitzbergen (Eng)
> - Chung Kuo (Chi), China (Eng)
> 
> ...and many others, of course. Bye the way, how should Cambodja/Campuchea
> be spelled this year?
> -- 
> Anders Andersson, Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
I don't think the spelling is as important as the
pronunciation (particularly when we're considering translating
from completely different "alphabets" such as Chinese and
Russian. In general, a phoenetic spelling of a foreign place
name (as pronounced by the natives) should suffice. Though I
agree that an American or English tourist traveling in Deutchland
might never find their way from a Deutch map unless they knew
that Koln is the same as Cologne, Munchen is the same as Munich, etc.
But, in all of these, notice that the English/American pronunciation
is vastly different from the Deutch pronunciation.

How would you like it if someone deliberately mispronounced
your name and seemed to insist that they, not you, were
correct?
-- 
Suzanne Barnett-Scott
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