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Are you referring to Gaddafi?
by mousecorkkey 8y ago
Are you referring to Gaddafi?
- sacado2 8y agoYep, we call him Kadhafi in French (and this time I checked the spelling).
- mcv 8y agoI notice Wikipedia now spells it as Gaddafi. I thought it used to be Khaddafi in English. Interestingly, Dutch Wikipedia now calls him al-Qadhafi.
- toomanybeersies 8y agoIt's a transliteration of Arabic. There's no single correct transliteration so it depends on the publisher as to what spelling they use. Here's a very fun Stack Overflow question about using a regex to match the different spellings: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5365283/regular-expression-to-search-for-gadaffi https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5365283/regular-expressi...
- Koshkin 8y agoIt's such a mess. We might be better off just translating the damn names (like they did in the remote past)...
- fapjacks 8y agoYes, but if we did that, the news would get confusing as we tried to sort out which "Grand King King of the Warrior Kings" they were talking about.
- ben_w 8y agoGiven his name isn’t really written in the Latin alphabet (“معمر محمد أبو منيار القذافي”, according to Wikipedia), all these variations are equally [in]correct.