RFC 4645bis: making 'pes' and 'prs' extlangs
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Sat Dec 6 00:21:38 CET 2008
On 5 Dec 2008, at 22:48, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> The Indians and the Chinese had been telling the world people what
> to call their cities in English for quite a while now, and the world
> is doing that (remember Peking, Bombay, and Madras?)
What? It's not Madras any more? I missed the memo.
> This has also been tried with language names (Sinhala vs Sinhalese)
> or country names.
Singhalese. Myanmar. (Oh how I hate Myanmar. There is no -r. There has
never been an -r. That's British Raj-ish for long a. Myanmaa it is, or
Myanmah. Sigh.)
> The Persian Academy tried to do similar, and continues to. Of course
> the
> Persian Academy only answered because the Australian government asked
> the Iranian government, and the Iranian government had no one else to
> turn to, other than the Academy. In other words, someone asked them,
> and
> they told their preference. I don't think the Academicians believe
> they
> can mandate something for non-Iranians.
Well said.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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