Paul Gretton
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:34:19 -0800
Brilliant! Cheers, Paul _______________________________________________________________________ From: Matt Seattle [mailto:theborderpi...@googlemail.com] Sent: 05 February 2010 19:29 To: Paul Gretton Cc: christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: Gaelic Pronunciation - pedantry warning 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".) -- References 1. mailto:i...@gretton-willems.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html