Mad props to Jim Lehrer of the NewsHour for resisting the peer pressure to call Turin "Torino." We don't call Milan, Rome, Naples, Florence, and so on "Milano," "Roma," "Napoli," and "Firenze." In English, it's not "Torino," it's Turin.
See further
jest on 2006-02-17T15:01:11
See my colleague's short note on this here:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/user/myl/languagelog/archives/002834.html
Re:See further
pudge on 2006-02-17T15:26:12
Very interesting, thanks.
Frank DeFord commented also
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5206923
Wake Up!
ziggy on 2006-02-17T16:16:40
Pudge, you are a complete and total luddite.
I suggest you dust off a copy of
Holy Fire, and prepare for the
All-European Orthographic Reformation that will soon be upon us.
:-)
Odd
I've always found it odd that we don't use the words people use to describe themselves.
If Turin is Torino in Italian why not use it?
Why use Finland when it's Suomi?
Re:Odd
pudge on 2006-02-18T02:31:05
And why not "United States of America" instead of "Les États Unis d'Amérique"?
Just because.
Re:Odd
I concur. Why aren't we just the United States of America?
Like you wrote, just because.
