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13 Aug 2019, 5:28 pm

Barely left my state and that was 10 years ago. I’ll probably die in this city never have it left it :cry:

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13 Aug 2019, 5:29 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

It's called Beijing now.

Just like Bombay is now called Mumbai.

You know I'm going to keep calling them by their real names, so stop being a wind-up merchant :lol:

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13 Aug 2019, 5:33 pm

Prometheus18 wrote:

You know I'm going to keep calling them by their real names

No wonder I have a soft spot for you

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13 Aug 2019, 5:35 pm

If a person from Beijing told you to call it Beijing, would you do it?

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13 Aug 2019, 5:36 pm

I prefer the old names, too.

But they have new name for a reason.

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13 Aug 2019, 5:41 pm

If it were likely to cause offence to someone I cared about, I might, though I'd probably use some kind of circumlocution instead.

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13 Aug 2019, 5:43 pm

BenderRodriguez wrote:

Prometheus18 wrote:

You know I'm going to keep calling them by their real names

No wonder I have a soft spot for you

Thanks!

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13 Aug 2019, 5:49 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

But they have new name for a reason.

Frankly, I'm not so sure. When I ask people about this, they usually point out that "Beijing" is closer to the local pronunciation of the city's name, but by that standard, we ought to call Vienna Wiener, Rome Roma, Moscow Moskva, Japan Nippon and Prague Praha.

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13 Aug 2019, 5:51 pm

Many Indians still call it 'Bombay'. Wouldn't be completely surprised if it were a majority.

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13 Aug 2019, 5:53 pm

DeepHour wrote:

Many Indians still call it 'Bombay'. Wouldn't be completely surprised if it were a majority.

They do at my local takeaway - they could hardly call it "Mumbai Aloo".

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13 Aug 2019, 5:57 pm

It makes me laugh that the SNP government in Scotland insists on putting up signposts in both English and Gaelic, when less than 1% of the population speaks the latter.

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13 Aug 2019, 5:59 pm

When I’m in their country, I try to pronounce their cities their way.

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13 Aug 2019, 6:04 pm

Would I be expected to say 'Noo Joisey' if I were in that part of the world?!

Sorry, only kidding! :lol:

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