Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 12:33:33 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language in danger: Language loss Message-ID: <20020529123333.G82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020528150600.A79546@energyhq.homeip.net> References: <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> <20020528150600.A79546@energyhq.homeip.net>
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On Tuesday, 28 May 2002 at 15:06:00 +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: > 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. I suppose it's a matter of opinion. I look on names as not being part of a language, more a tag, so the spelling shouldn't be changed. There's still a significant issue when transliterating from one language to another, though. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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