[WikiEN-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] anglicization is stupid

[Toby Bartels]

Ortolan88 wrote:

>Stranger in a Strange Land, is, of course, from the Book of Exodus in
>the Old Testament, and should only be rendered in ancient Hebrew.

I'll pretend that you're serious for a moment to make a point.

If we have an article about the phrase from Exodus,
which discusses the uses that this phrase has been put to
over the millennia (in any language, variously translated),
then it should have a Hebrew title.

If we have an article about the phrase in the King James Bible,
which discusses the uses that this phrasing has been put to
over the centuries (in English, using King James' words),
then it should be at [[Stranger in a strange land]].

But our article about Heinlein's book should be at
[[Stranger in a Strange Land]], the title that he originally gave it.

All of these examples follow the same sort of logic,
once you get used to it.


-- Toby