Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 15:06:00 +0200 From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language in danger: Language loss Message-ID: <20020528150600.A79546@energyhq.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20020528104311.A37937@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@online.fr on Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:43:11AM %2B0200 References: <20020527005647.A50028@FreeBSD.org> <3CF1CD8C.C3262181@mindspring.com> <20020527014353.B1951@HAL9000.wox.org> <20020528091410.G29491@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020528001001.GA20175@hades.hell.gr> <20020528095208.A16567@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020527175613.A1214@HAL9000.wox.org> <20020528102802.K16567@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020527184817.A1485@HAL9000.wox.org> <20020528104311.A37937@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:43:11AM +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
Hi,
> I agree, every language distorts foreign words and foreign names.
> French is by far the worst offender I've seen (eg, "Jean-Sebastien
> Bach," and I'm not even getting started on names from non-Roman
It's usual, in Spanish, to translate the name of a person, and keep the
original surname. IMHO it's totally correct. So you could either say
Johan Sebastian Bach, or Juan Sebastian Bach, both of which would be
correct. I think the same can be applied to french and other languages.
OTOH, some names are fully translated in english: Cristobal Colon ->
Christopher Columbus. I think it makes sense to translate names, now,
surnames, that I find a bit odd.
Cheers,
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