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Yeah, the truly interesting part is where you make the cutoff in regions where borders shifted. Straßburg instead of Strasbourg hopefully doesn't get perceived
by usrusr 4y ago
Yeah, the truly interesting part is where you make the cutoff in regions where borders shifted. Straßburg instead of Strasbourg hopefully doesn't get perceived as a claim to the place and neither should Danzig, but I'd rather write Kaliningrad because those people are so damn thin-skinned, bordering on paranoia (they might even feel threatened by the letters Sank Petersburg, even if that can't possibly mean anything other than respect). But random villages that used to have a name in a language that isn't spoken there anymore? Hands off, unless you desperately want to sound "that way" (you shouldn't!). In an explicitly historical context, you should at least acknowledge the current name.
- kgeist 4y ago>but I'd rather write Kaliningrad because those people are so damn thin-skinned, bordering on paranoia In Kaliningrad, the locals colloquially call their city Koenig (short for Koenigsberg), they're totally fine with it. Although, the context matters, of course.
- usrusr 4y agoNice to hear that, I guess it shouldn't be surprising that people who actually live there might be less concerned about a hypothetical reclaim than people hundreds of kilometers away. If you only know it from the map (well, that's also me) that's a what-if not rooted in reality one way or the other at all.
- kenneth 4y agoI imagine most people in Königsburg would much rather be part of Deutschland than Россия though.