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Remember that they are not typing in Portuguese, and in other languages places have other names/spellings. I say this as a Brazilian myself, who is fond of the
by lbschenkel 3y ago
Remember that they are not typing in Portuguese, and in other languages places have other names/spellings.
I say this as a Brazilian myself, who is fond of the original spelling.
I live in Scandinavia, and do you feel it is fair for me to criticize you for writing Gotemburgo and not Göteborg, or Copenhague and not København?
The article is in English, the conversation is in English, and like it or not places like São Paulo are spelled without diacritics in English.
Or should an article in Portuguese in a Brazilian newspaper write Deutschland instead of Alemanha?
- bananamerica 3y ago> Or should an article in Portuguese in a Brazilian newspaper write Deutschland instead of Alemanha? What bizarre examples, those are entirely different words, I'm talking about a minor difference in acentuation. And I don't care what the rule is, it's disrespectful, it's an article, and copy and paste exists. They even do it with proper names. You don't change proper names. The name is "Pelé", not "skin". So disrespectful.
- lbschenkel 3y agoLet is keep it to South America then. Do you think you're disrespectful when you write "Peru" (Portuguese dropped the diacritic from "Perú") or "Colômbia" (now we added a diacritic that is not in the original "Colombia")? What about "Paraguai": why is "Paraguay" so hard to type that we had to change it? And this is coming from a sister language, Spanish. I think you're not paying attention to how languages work.
- bananamerica 3y agoI don't think you understand how copy and paste works... if the English Wikipedia can do it, I think article writers can do as well.