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It's doing the right thing - pronouncing local names like a native English speaker just off the boat. Otherwise the poor sod would be totally at sea.
by B1FF_PSUVM 7y ago
It's doing the right thing - pronouncing local names like a native English speaker just off the boat.
Otherwise the poor sod would be totally at sea.
- AmericanChopper 7y agoExactly. If this is going to be localised it should be to the user of the device, not what their current location happens to be.
- jmiserez 7y agoImposing one's wrong pronunciation on purpose is arrogant, lazy and even disrespectful. Furthermore it's not helping anyone long term. The only exceptions I see are anglicized alternative names ("Munich" instead of "München") but even then the local pronunciation should be preferred.
- B1FF_PSUVM 7y ago> wrong pronunciation Ah, sorry, but nowadays no pronunciation is "wrong" - that is unspeakable oppression. We've achieved full Humpty-Dumpty - "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
- stordoff 7y agoThis just enables them to _remain_ lost when someone later mentions the place to them, or they need to ask someone about it.