On 11/13/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 11/13/05, Andrew Gray
<shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
[[Myanmar]] with Burma a redirect.
Another utterly ridiculous situation. The country has had a perfectly
good name in English for some centuries now. Let's have done with it,
move Munich to München, Venice to Venezia, Milan to Milano, Poland to
Polska, and Austria to Österreich. Who needs English, anyway?
Perhaps a more useful example would be moving [[United Kingdom]] to
[[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] -- certainly
the country's official name, if not its common name. On the other
hand, I happen to think of the relevant African country as Côte
d'Ivore. I think most news sources (the ones I read, anyway, TIME and
the Guardian/Observer) do the same. The BBC might as well. That, to
me, is its natural name. (The fact that I am 16 may not be
irrelevant.)
To me, the name of Burma is Myanmar; the natural name of Zaire is the
Democratic Republic of the Congo; and so on and so forth.
And yes, the Ivory Coast is properly Côte d'Ivoire. Yes, the French beat
the British in naming a country. GET OVER IT.
--
Alphax -
Contributor to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
"We make the internet not suck" - Jimbo Wales
Public key: