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Words of different languages are often suggested for a ban, but fail the real-world test. Countless languages borrow words from one another, especially names.
by sesqu 13y ago
Words of different languages are often suggested for a ban, but fail the real-world test.
Countless languages borrow words from one another, especially names. For example, some people argue that calling Marie Skłodowska-Curie simply Curie misrepresents her character naïvely, as her name and country of birth were important to her. You could, of course, latinize it, but that gets you into trouble with the Turks and the Koreans and essentially all languages that had writing before the industrial age.