[WikiEN-l] Tower of Babel - Voting to ignore MoS, NCs for language reasons.
charles matthews
charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Sun Nov 13 09:28:19 UTC 2005
Tony Sidaway wrote
> Consensus cannot be gauged only by voting; the
external sources comprehensively refute the votes for the French name.
That's simplistic here. I wouldn't be surprised to hear 'Ivory Coast' on
BBC radio, because it is much easier to grok. But I don't imagine the BBC
thinks that's the real name of the country. Diplomats are supposed to be
able to hack French pronunciation. Let's face it, most anglophones can't.
However WP is a written medium.
Charles
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