Re: new Klingon spelling
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 6, 2004, 1:11 |
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At 00:04 6.1.2004, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
> > That is, the English
> > speakers' ignorance of Arabic lead them to
> > arbitrarily assign
> > values based not on anything to do with their
> > internal grammar of
> > English, but with the social conventions
> > associated with English orthography.
>
>Of course! We (English users) are under
>absolutely NO obligation to even consider how
>foreigners pronounce their own names. If they
>expect that nicety, they can jolly well give
>themselves anglofriendly names! ;)
Actually I see no reason not to call the
place 'Mesopotamia', just as well as
English has kept 'Egypt'.
/BP 8^)
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