[WikiEN-l] Tower of Babel - Voting to ignore MoS, NCs for language reasons.

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Tony Sidaway wrote:
<snip>
> I do sometimes wonder where the process of abandonment of English 
> proper names of places will lead us, but no doubt in time we would
> all become accustomed to referring to Cymru,

Wales

> Alba,

Erm...

> Euskal Herria,

Erm...

> Deutschland,

Germany

> España,

Spain

> Confoederatio Helvetica,

Switzerland?

> Österreich,

Austria

> and all the rest--and some of us may even understand which country
> we're talking about.
> 

And the rest can just smile and nod, and read the article while nobody's
looking! Perfect! :)

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