[uClibc] about the name of your project

Denis Vlasenko vda at port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua
Fri Jun 4 22:08:45 UTC 2004


On Friday 04 June 2004 23:49, Dave Dodge wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 06:39:01PM +0300, George Andreou wrote:
> > The question is, when you are saying the letters of a foreign alphabet
> > do you pronounce them, the way you feel confortable, or the way the
> > native people pronounce the letters?
>
> If the languages are different enough, the proper sounds may not even
> exist in the speaker's native language.  Japanese borrows some words
> from English, but changes the pronounciation to fit Japanese syllables.
>
> Place names can also be specific to a language. A single city or
> country can have very different names in different languages.

For example, there is no Moscow, really. Moskva.
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vda




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