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There's nothing wrong with exonyms in principle. However using "Florence" instead of "Florencja" in a Polish text would sound weird. If you add historical conf
by praptak 2y ago
There's nothing wrong with exonyms in principle. However using "Florence" instead of "Florencja" in a Polish text would sound weird.
If you add historical conflict to it then it can get much worse. "Warschau" in a non-German text would make many Polish people angry because of memories of forced Germanization.
- kgwgk 2y agoThe point is that using Florence or Cologne in an English text doesn’t sound weird at all even though they are (were) French names.