[WikiEN-l] Tower of Babel - Voting to ignore MoS, NCs for language reasons.
Alphax (Wikipedia email)
alphasigmax at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 04:04:34 UTC 2005
Tony Sidaway wrote:
<snip>
> I do sometimes wonder where the process of abandonment of English
> proper names of places will lead us, but no doubt in time we would
> all become accustomed to referring to Cymru,
Wales
> Alba,
Erm...
> Euskal Herria,
Erm...
> Deutschland,
Germany
> España,
Spain
> Confoederatio Helvetica,
Switzerland?
> Österreich,
Austria
> and all the rest--and some of us may even understand which country
> we're talking about.
>
And the rest can just smile and nod, and read the article while nobody's
looking! Perfect! :)
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