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Thread #33540   Message #447409
Posted By: Ringer
23-Apr-01 - 01:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Linguistics question--Peking/Beijing
Subject: RE: BS: Linguistics question--Peking/Beijing
Why do we worry about some foreign pronunciations and not others? Both Peking and Bay-zhing are probably laughably wrong to a native of that city. Why is there no pressure to pronounce Paris (France) as Par-ee, or Munich as Munchen or, for that matter, Munich's country as Deuchland? (I notice that all my examples are European. Is there a clue there, I wonder?)