[WikiEN-l] Tower of Babel - Voting to ignore MoS, NCs for language reasons.

Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au
Sun Nov 13 16:21:23 UTC 2005


G'day Alphax,

> geni wrote:
>> On 11/13/05, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Better rename all the articles on French towns, people and
>>> business in France then, too.
>> 
>> Execept that with the exception of a few big ones they don't really
>>  have common english names.
> 
> Well, here's an example of a German company (couldn't think of any 
> French ones): Telefonica Deutchland. Should the article on them be 
> called "German Telecom"???
> 
> HELLO!!!!!!!!! DID WE LOSE OUR BRAINS SOMEWHERE ALONG THE ROAD TO 
> POLITICAL CORRECTNESS????????

Well, if you have to shout to be heard, I imagine German Telecom's 
service is similar to their British and Australian counterparts ...


-- 
Mark Gallagher
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- Danger Mouse


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