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In the exact same way that people say "Yuri Gagarin" instead of Ю́рий Гага́рин. I work with several Polish people who intentionally anglicise their names due t
by rkachowski 7y ago
In the exact same way that people say "Yuri Gagarin" instead of Ю́рий Гага́рин.
I work with several Polish people who intentionally anglicise their names due to the phonetics being awkward / not existing in English (E.g. Tomasz Vs Thomas).The same with German and Chinese people - it's either for convenience or a best approximation.
- 0ld 7y agoBtw, noone would really write Юрий Гагарин with the stress marks. Except for wikipedia where you copypasted it from
- rkachowski 7y agoDo you feel that invalidates the point?
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- brokenkebab 7y agoIt's absolutely not the same way, because Юрий is in different writing system. There's widely accepted tradition that names originally written with Latin letters are preserved as is in other languages using Latin letters (with exception of diacritical parts). Which makes a lot of sense, actually, because you at least know that's the same person/place whether it's in Hungarian, or French. And you can't enforce proper pronunciation anyway.