Re: How you pronunce foreign place names

--- Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote:

>  > 3. Pronounce it Englishly, butwith some
> exoticisation [beIZIN]
>
> Is that a good example?  No-one's likely to
> *deliberately* choose
> a form, like [beIZIN], that's less like the native
> pronunciation than
> the natural English one would be.
>
True, but nevertheless, as Stevo pointed out, quite
common among newscasters, etc.  Makes me want to
scream.  And the things sportscasters do to the names
of Chinese athletes at the Olympics ... *cringing*

Adam

11 Ed ingredjandu ad il bedi, videruns al credura simu al Maja, il seu marri; ad
caderuns ed adoruns sivi, ed abriruns uls sustrus tesorus ed eviruns al jura,
ul crisu djul Livanunu, ed murra.

Machu 2:11