Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist?
nesc@lemmy.cafe 2 days agoDo you think that schools should spend weeks to months of time to train pronounciation of places in hundred different languages? How would you even decide which way is the correct pronounciation, if languages evolve and might sound different even in the span of a century, not even counting places where multiple ethnic groups live and have different languages and different names for places?
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 2 days ago
First, it would be a start, and second: it could be generalized to certain countries until a consensus was made. DOE/government or what is left of it could petition each country to decide this out of respect and cultural awareness. I dare not add any pathos to this argument. The more open-minded people there are the more it helps.