Re: New pronunciation of Bangalore


Ar an triú lá de mí na Samhain, scríobh Peacenik:

It's new official name is, or will be, Bangaluru*, pronounced
[bVNg@lu:rU].

* transliterated from its spelling in Kannada.

<sigh> Not another re-naming of a city.

We don't insist that the French stop calling London "Londres" or England
"Angleterre". The Germans don't make official edicts saying from now on we
must call Munich "München" and Germany "Deutschland". So why is India
insisting we call Bombay "Mumbai", etc.?

Well, India has a better claim to it than France or Germany; it has millions
who speak English, a good chunk of them native speakers (certainly if you
apply the same standards of what a native speaker is as are applied in the
US or Europe, and ignore that the accent isn’t European or North American)
and it uses the language in government and the media. You surely wouldn’t
object if Switzerland changed the German-language names of random Swiss
towns, or Morocco the French-language names of cities on its soil?

Me no likey.

--
Santa Maradona, priez pour moi!
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