On 3/11/06, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
For purely practical considerations, I would suggest using the English name for a Romanian audience. Chances are, if they have happened to hear of these places before, they would be more familiar with the English name, and, in addition to that, English pronunciation is more intuitive when reading Romanian than that of most Celtic languages -- imagine how horribly most Romanians would mangle Caerdydd, An Uaimh, or Corcaigh.
Mark
To be honest, I agree - that's what I was thinking too.
Cormac
On 10/03/06, Wikipedia Romania (Ronline) rowikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm planning to work on a number of articles related to Irish, Scottish and Welsh localities on the Romanian Wikipedia. I am currently in a dilemma as to what name to use - the Celtic variant or the English variant. I have realised that most non-English Wikipedias use the English variant - so that place names such as "Cork", "Dublin", "Edinburg" and "Cardiff" are used. For the exception of Dublin, perhaps, many of these place names, particularly smaller towns, do not have native variants in languages such as Romanian, German, French, etc.
So, why should the English name be used in this situation? Wouldn't the Celtic name be more appropriate? Celtic languages are co-official in Scotland and Wales, while in Ireland, Irish is the first official and national language. Due to this, I would prefer to use placenames such as "Corcaigh", "*An Uaimh*" (for Navan), "*Chill Dara" *(for Kildare), etc. However, this sounds quite odd and are not frequently used, even though they are the first official name. What do others think? I am inclined to use them so that people are actually educated that there exists an Irish language as the first official language of Ireland. Too often, people in Romania say "the Irish speak (just) English" and stop it at that. They're surprised, for example, when I tell them about Irish names such as "Baile Atha Cliath" for Dublin, etc.
Thanks,
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