Re: [conculture] Names of countries and national languages
| From: | Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 23, 2007, 15:21 |
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In the last episode, (On Sunday 23 September 2007 14:56:54), Benct Philip
Jonsson wrote:
> The question is what to call Borgondesc in English.
You may call this a cop-out, but I don't see any reason why you couldn't call
it "Borgondesc" in English. There must be hundreds of "small" languages whose
names are the same in English as they are in their native language (Ubykh
and !Xóö pole-vault to mind), whilst there is precedent in
Romance - "Rumantsch" has hardly been Anglicised (!). And the accents and !
in !Xóö are not likely to guide any monolingual English speaker in
pronouncing her name as she is spoke (sic).
HTH
Jeff
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