[Talk-GB] City names translation

[phil at trigpoint.me.uk]

You have missed a few, not all have is_in _country tag. so have not shown uo in your query.

Phil (trigpoint)

On Tue Aug 05 2014 19:38:54 GMT+0100 (BST), Brian Prangle wrote:
> Pavlo
> 
> If your ukrainian naming convention will be of use to your fellow
> ukrainians (e.g encouraging them to learn about our cities or visit them)
> then please go ahead and good luck! This can only be a good thing in my
> opinion. Having an extra language tag on my home city doesn't matter to me
> - I won't  understand it so I won't add to the debate - only Ukrainainans
> really need worry about spelling and naming - it's their language after
> all. Good luck and thanks for being polite and raising the issue in a
> debate with local mappers
> 
> Regards
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> On 5 August 2014 15:39, Pavlo Dudka <pavlo.dudka at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am not familiar with city debating. I assume you just set place=city for
> > those that have official city status.
> >
> > No, St Davids and Bangor are not really known, but one can find
> > information about them in ukrainian.
> > St Davids mentioned as "Сент-Дейвідс" is famous by its monastery and
> > cathedral.
> > Bangor mentioned as "Бангор" is famous by its university. There are also
> > mentioning of football team.
> >  Milton Keynes mentioned as "Мілтон-Кінз"(sometimes "Мілтон Кейнс"), e.g.
> > here http://fakty.ictv.ua/ua/index/read-news/id/1492829 (translation of
> > http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/milton-keynes-introducing-driverless-public-transport-pods-by-2017-8925119.html
> > )
> > Shrewsbury mentioned as "Шрусбері". Some agency offers studying english
> > there:
> > http://www.vyvchennya-movy.com.ua/vyvchennya-movy/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%8F/%D0%A8%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96/
> >
> > Wikipedia has ukrainian articles about all mentioned cities.
> >
> > 2014-08-05 16:28 GMT+03:00 <phil at trigpoint.me.uk>:
> >
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