Matt Seattle
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:30:07 -0800
It's all beyond me, I don't know my Erse from my Alba
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Paul Gretton
<[1]i...@gretton-willems.com> wrote:
Good point! Similarly, we don't say "Deutsch" when we mean "German"
or
"Nederlands" when we mean "Dutch". In the same vein, it annoys me
when
various BBC pundits talk of the language of Iran as being "Farsi" as
opposed
to "Persian". (It seems btw that the Persian equivalent of the
Academie
Franc,aise would in any case prefer us to use "Persian".)
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