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Stevertigo wrote: | This may sound offlandish - but I want to throw support behind the idea of | spelling proper names in close accord to their actual names' pronunciation. | The English spelling/pronunciation "Prague" would redirect to "Praha" - - the | actual name of the place. This is not something that should simply be left | to stand along English lines.
Hear him, hear him! I have long lobbied for my city to re-adopt its true name of Yang-na, given to it by its original inhabitants. The religious-fundamentalist colonialist oppressors have successfully insisted on their own foreign name of "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora, la Reina de Los Angeles de la Porciuncula" for far too long now -- and even that abomination of a name is often abbreviated even further, implying that the Christian concept of angels defines our city in its entirety!
It is good to know that Stevertigo agrees with me that mere millions of people and centuries of tradition cannot be allowed to stand in the way of CORRECTNESS.