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Are Rome and Munich pointers or English names?
by bradleyjg 11y ago
Are Rome and Munich pointers or English names?
- mikeash 11y agoI'd call Rome an English name. We could easily write/say Roma in our own alphabet, after all, but we choose a different name. Munich, I guess depends on how you count the dots. Basically, it seems to me that there's a difference between using a different name from what the natives use because of some long tradition or linguistic drift ("English name") and using a different name from what the natives use out of necessity because nobody would know how to read it if you used the original.