Oops, see CORRECTION below.
||Tom Parmenter wrote:
||> Spanish speakers wouldn't like it to be called a Wikipedia because
||> they really don't even like saying or hearing the "Wiki" part, both
||> the "w" and the "k" sound being foreign and unpleasant.
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||For the Esperanto people, I registered
vikipedio.com/net/org
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||I could do the same for Spanish people, if there is an acceptable analogue.
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|Keeping in mind that Spanish is itself phonetic and that I can't put a
|diaresis over the u, the Spanish Royal Academy would probably spell it
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CORRECTION: g-u<diaresis>-i-q-u-i
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|based on their preferred spelling of "whisky" as
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| g-u<diaresis>-i-s-q-u-i
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|The diaresis is not an umlaut, but a diacritical mark indicating that
|the U and the I are in separate syllables. The Spanish aren't crazy
|about this solution (whisky is usually just spelled whisky), but it is
|the official one. I don't know how you'd get a diaresis into a URL.
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|Perhaps you should check with contributor Perique des Palottes.
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|Tom
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||I'm very much opposed to closing any of our language wikipedias.
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||--Jimbo
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