Quoting Marco Cimarosti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Doug Ewell wrote:
> > I'll go farther than that. It's always bothered me that speakers of
> > European languages, including English but especially French, have seen
> > fit to rename the cities and internal subdivisions of other countries.
>
> Rightly said!
>
> There is reason to rename "Colonia" to "K�ln", "Augusta" to "Augsburg",
> "Eboraco" to "York", "Provincia" to "Provence", and so on.
>
I doubt Christians mean offence when they refer to Jesus through any of the
countless transcriptions, spellings and pronunciations used in various
languages. I think this is analogous to assuming that anyone dreaming of
packing it all in and buying a villa in Provence similarly means no offence
when expressing that desire in English ("Zapan" though would appear to be a
different matter).
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