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Have you ever heard of someone tying a cow onto a car's roof rack? Sadly, it doesn't go the other way 'round. Also, "fútbol", but also abominations like "güisq
by the_gipsy 3y ago
Have you ever heard of someone tying a cow onto a car's roof rack? Sadly, it doesn't go the other way 'round.
Also, "fútbol", but also abominations like "güisqui". The frontier between "proper foreign names" and "imported massacred names" is very blurry: You can't import/massacre every foreign name, or else any moderately modern text would read like a clown show.
- mytailorisrich 3y agoIt's not an 'abomination' at all, it's a phonetic transcription within the language. You could argue that writing "whisky" in a Spanish sentence would equally be an abomination. The letter 'w' is not even a standard latin letter but was created much letter to transcribe Anglo-Saxon sounds in English.
- the_gipsy 3y agoIt's something that would make sense centuries ago. Nowadays it's just awkward/annoying/pointless that there are a handful exceptions finger-appointed by the RAE, and everything else is treated like a proper/foreign name.
- karatinversion 3y agoI think we would get used to it pretty quickly if it was adopted into English. No one thinks that we should write about Αθήνα or Владимир Путин or 東京都 in English, either.
- dghf 3y agoBut "whisky" is just an Anglicisation of Gaelic "uisge". Why is "güisqui" an abomination, but "whisky" not?