A proposed solution for descriptions

Doug Ewell dewell at adelphia.net
Mon Jun 19 16:31:00 CEST 2006


John Cowan <cowan at ccil dot org> wrote:

>> "Deseret (Mormon)" or "Falkland Islands (Malvinas)".
>
> The last one, at least, is politically very touchy and I would *NOT* 
> modify it under any circumstances.  A war was fought about whether the 
> islands were to be called "Falklands" or "Malvinas"; the current form 
> smells of carefully crafted compromise and should be left exactly as 
> is.

Per this comment, and Michael Everson's objection to splitting this one 
and "Holy See (Vatican City State)", I withdraw both of those from 
consideration.

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Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California, USA
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