|From: Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com |Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii |Content-Disposition: inline |User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i |Sender: wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com |X-BeenThere: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com |X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.4 |Precedence: bulk |Reply-To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com |List-Help: mailto:wikipedia-l-request@nupedia.com?subject=help |List-Post: mailto:wikipedia-l@nupedia.com |List-Subscribe: http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l, | mailto:wikipedia-l-request@nupedia.com?subject=subscribe |List-Id: An unmoderated discussion of all things Wikipedia <wikipedia-l.nupedia.com> |List-Unsubscribe: http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l, | mailto:wikipedia-l-request@nupedia.com?subject=unsubscribe |List-Archive: http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/wikipedia-l/ |Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:44:22 -0700 | |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. | |For the Esperanto people, I registered vikipedio.com/net/org | |I could do the same for Spanish people, if there is an acceptable analogue.
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
g-u<diaresis>-q-u-i
based on their preferred spelling of "whisky" as
g-u<diaresis>-i-s-q-u-i
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.
Perhaps you should check with contributor Perique des Palottes.
Tom
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