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Re: Oklahoma DMV violates civil rights during testing |
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Posted by JohnL on Tue Apr 8 20:27:46 2008, in response to Re: Oklahoma DMV violates civil rights during testing, posted by Kew Gardens Teleport on Tue Apr 8 18:08:49 2008. I got to “F”:foreign placenames Style for foreign placenames evolves with common usage. Leghorn has become Livorno, and maybe one day München will supplant Munich, but not yet. Remember that many names have become part of the English language: Geneva is the English name for the city that Switzerland's French speakers refer to as Genève and its German speakers call Genf. Accordingly, we opt for locally used names, with these main exceptions (the following list is not exhaustive, apply common sense): Archangel, Basle, Berne, Brittany, Cologne, Dunkirk, Florence, Fribourg, Genoa, Gothenburg, Hanover, Kiev, Lombardy, Milan, Munich, Naples, Normandy, Nuremberg, Padua, Piedmont, Rome, Sardinia, Seville, Sicily, Syracuse, Turin, Tuscany, Venice, Zurich, etc. And the next time someone says we should call Burma "Myanmar" because that's what it calls itself, point out that Colonel Gadafy renamed Libya "The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyya" See last paragraph! |
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