[WikiEN-l] Why voting *is* evil

Matt Brown morven at gmail.com
Tue Apr 11 17:29:24 UTC 2006


On 4/11/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> If the Americans had done the right thing and called it New Georgia to
> follow the pattern that was started with Hampshire, York and Jersey we
> wouldn't be having this problem.  Nobody complains about the name South
> Georgia except perhaps the Argentinians.
>
> The other alternative might be the Greek solution of using FSRG (Former
> Soviet Republic of Gerogia). :-)

Actually, on reading [[Georgia (country)]], one learns that the
Georgian name for their own nation in their own language is not
Georgia at all but something quite unrelated.  Clearly the solution is
to place the article at [[Sak'art'velo]] and move the issue to a
/different/ flamewar.

;)

-Matt



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