Oliver wrote
Oh, perhaps I should point out that my agreement with the "pronounced Paree, you morons" thing was a joke, of course.
Ah, this is too bad, because, well... I thought it was an interesting proposition...
Not the reference to morons of course :)
But the idea to indicate the native pronounciation of a name or of a city could be a good one.
Say...some 20 years ago, we were told not to say (and write) P�kin any more but to replace it with Beijing (same with Mao Z�dong, Jiang Jieshi, Changzhou...).
These changes were strongly enforced in France, maybe because we were under a socialist/communist government. It seems we are slowly drifting again toward P�kin :-)
The fact is that change could not really be said to be to "look" (read) more like the "real" (native) words, since it is in no way written that way. What really mattered was not so much we wrote it that way, but we *learn to pronounce* it a way that sound more like the native word.
And maybe is that education also to learn how to pronounce place names and people names properly ?
And maybe an encyclopedia is JUST the perfect place to acquire that kind of knowledge. Especially in cases such as these ones where there is also a nice historical point to develop.
There's a international code for prononciation no ? And what about sound later ?
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Annihilation of opposition through body-unification of dissenting voices ???
I agree with some of Lir points of views, but likely, I will not be confused with him/her :-)))
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