On 3/24/07, Baris Cicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 07:04 -0700, Elliot Lee wrote: > > Baris Cicek wrote: > > > > > I'll talk w/ our local GUG about if we can organize to host GUADEC next > > > year in Istanbul. > > > > Not Constantinople? > It was called Constantinople ages ago, afaik, but however you call it, > as long as we point same land place, some languages still uses > Constantinople name I guess. Though officially this city is called > Istanbul as one of most beautiful cities in the World. (even though lots > of corruption due to migration).
I believe Elliot was making a reference to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Not_Constantinople Moral of the story: always footnote your non-cross-cultural jokes ;) Luis _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
