> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Roger Mills
> Dana Nutter wrote:
> > I have to admit though I'm guilty of using some of the older
> > names for places. I still say Bombay and Saigon even though
> > they were Mumbai and Ho Chi Minh City at the time I was
there.
> > It's really just a habit because those names were used for
so
> > long.
> >
> And Burma...... <rant> I can't bring myself to refer to Ho Chi
Minh City
> (when were you there?), because I was there in the Good Old
Days when it was
> still definitely Saigon, the Paris of the Orient (well, more
or less). This
> was 1958*, not long after the French had lost out, and the
street signs had
> two names-- new Vietnamese and ex-French. The main drag was
Duong Tu Do,
> ex-Catinat; my quarters were on Tran Hung Dao, ex-Blvd.
Galliéni (some
> general or other I think)...Only rarely would a taxi- or
pedicab driver--
> when you said "Rue Catinat!"-- harumph and correct you to the
Vietnamese
> name.</rant>
Just a quick stop back in 1999. Don't remember the names of
anything except the nightclub I ended up in called Apocaplyse
Now.
> I am sorry to say that most of us Americans there at the time
(and I include
> myself) did not have very high regard for the
Vietnamese...............
I used to live in Westminster, Ca. aka "Little Saigon".