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How can the New Iork Tymes just choose how they spell things? That's messed up.
by snthpy 11mo ago
How can the New Iork Tymes just choose how they spell things? That's messed up.
- renewiltord 11mo agoThese idiosyncrasies are amusing but they do have a habit of dominating the conversation. E.g. the New Yorker (I think) uses diaeresis to represent distinct syllables resulting in words like “Cooperate” being decorated. Or that chap here who insists on using 5 digit years. But some go missed. My personal favourite is that I prefer to fully close clauses within quotations. > The President said, “I will never bomb the moon!”.
- monerozcash 11mo agoThe same way they just choose to anglicize Владимир Путин and בִּנְיָמִין נְתַנְיָהוּ, although there are certainly a plenty of much better examples.
- hurfdurf 11mo agoThe Habsburg Family never used a different writing system, though.
- tanseydavid 11mo agoBut I bet they used the metric system!
- steve1977 11mo agoProbably, but only since the 19th century ;)
- monerozcash 11mo agoThey did use a different language with different pronunciation rules, though. I'm not convinced that sticking with the original spelling is obviously better. Bibis’s first name certainly doesn't accurately transliterate to Benjamin, and that's probably fine.
- hurfdurf 11mo agoThey use the name "Habsburg". Who is the NYT to tell them they are in fact not "Habsburg"?
- monerozcash 11mo agoI don't think the NYT is telling them that.
- kmoser 11mo agoLike the way the French and English write "Cologne" for the city Germans call "Köln". The NYT is just adhering to a different standard, not making up anything new.