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Regarding Chinese city names, in the 2008 Olympics, newscasters were trying to use the Chinese name for the location instead of the English name (which is Beiji
by javert 11y ago
Regarding Chinese city names, in the 2008 Olympics, newscasters were trying to use the Chinese name for the location instead of the English name (which is Beijing). It was horrible. It was incorrect. It was "politically correct."
- creshal 11y ago> the English name (which is Beijing) Beijing? Peking? Pei-ching? Peiping? What is the correct spelling and what isn't for foreign names changes over time. (It's quite amusing how Germans go to great lengths to use the new, Polish names for cities in former Prussia, while for Belgian cities that haven't been under German control for much longer, they insist on German names.)
- CPLX 11y agoWell in their defense my understanding is they had a somewhat embarrassing dust-up with Poland a few years back.