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Daily reminder that his name is spelled Buffett. Two t's.
by carabiner 6y ago
Daily reminder that his name is spelled Buffett. Two t's.
- exporectomy 6y agoOr we could follow Shakespeare's lead and not worry about spelling too much. Plenty of named also get anglicized into slightly different or multiple spellings. Are those Chinese people called Wang or Wong?
- koolba 6y agoEither way, sometimes it’s going to be Wong.
- Invictus0 6y agoWhen the word is someone's name the spelling should be respected.
- red369 6y agoI agree, but I think the point regarding Shakespeare's spelling was probably referring to the way he may have spelled his own name differently at different times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_Shakespeare%27s_name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_Shakespeare%27s_na...
- exporectomy 6y agoNot just his own name, nobody at that time could spell English consistently. Which might have had something to do with not even being able to read or write. People's names are fundamentally oral and spelling is just an encoding to communicate them in writing. Being worried about spelling correctness it like being worried about the choice of binary encoding of the spelling. My name is only correctly encoded in binary as ASCII, not some bastardized similar-looking unicode codepoints, and certainly not that archaic IBM encoding! Future generations had better respect my preference! /s
- Razengan 6y agohow long is a chinese name
- exporectomy 6y agoWe're both going to get in trouble for this but Hu was the president of china in the 2000s?
- Razengan 6y agoWe chose this path
- nayuki 6y agoWang in Mandarin, Wong in Cantonese. There is a difference.
- exporectomy 6y agoIt's the same character in both dialects. I don't think a particular romanization counts as somebody's language when plenty of native speakers can't even read or write it. If you want to respect spellings, we should write all Chinese names in Chinese characters, but we don't because we don't respect them enough to actually bother with effort.
- goldcd 6y agoWell if we're going to get into that, it should be pronounced Barkshire.