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<p>I think we are in violent agreement.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 27.03.2020 um 14:04 schrieb Paul
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<div dir="ltr">On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 12:31, Simon Poole <<a
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<p>The point is that the name in question isn't actually
the name in de-CH, it's the Swedish name.</p>
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<div>I was hoping some would understand better by reversing
the positions. <br>
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<p>The general norm all over the world is that most places
-don't- have names in languages that are not used
locally.</p>
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<div>Agreed. There are a lot of named places in the world,
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<div>down to short side-streets. But some, the important
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<div>do have names in other languages.<br>
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<p> Pretending that they do isn't a useful concept and yes
they typically won't have transliterations either. <br>
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<div>I'm not pretending the street I'm on has a name in
Mandarin. But the</div>
<div>country I'm in does. As does the capital of my country.
My town,</div>
<div>probably not.</div>
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<div>There is valid reason to permit foreign-language names
where such exist</div>
<div>and to permit transliterations where orthography is
sufficiently different</div>
<div>to make the local name incomprehensible. Duplicating the
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<div>in other languages than the local one(s) isn't sensible.<br>
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<div>Paul</div>
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