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HMFindlay Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
BrE: Re-writing
0 When I learn English for Science and Technology at a tuition centre the tutor tends to mix BrE, MyE and AmE altogether and I always rewrite them back as BrE. The Q is, is it acceptable to rewrite proper nouns written in AmE as in Pearl Habor into Pearl Habour and Lindsay Lohan's song Rumor into Rumour? Answer from BrE writers are most welcomed 05 0 010id 1
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0 Not really as then you are changing their names. Proper noun spellings should not be messed about with. 0-
- 0 Not really as then you are changing their names.
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0 Not really as then you are changing their names. Proper noun spellings should not be messed about with. 0-
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01 cite 10 HMFindlay 12 cite 10 When I learn English for Science and Technology at a tuition centre the tutor tends to mix BrE, MyE and AmE altogether and I always rewrite them back as BrE. The Q is, is it acceptable to rewrite proper nouns written in AmE as in Pearl Habor into Pearl Habour and Lindsay Lohan's song Rumor into Rumour? Answer fro
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0 So are you saying that it's ok to mess with proper nouns from other language but not AmE? 02 br
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00 So we can freely change Torino into Turin and Roma into Rome as well as Mallorca into Majorca and Sevilla into Seville, Ciudad de Mexico into Mexico City but we can NEVER mess around with the Yankee English proper nouns including places in the US which are named in Spanish su
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00 So we can freely change Torino into Turin and Roma into Rome as well as Mallorca into Majorca and Sevilla into Seville, Ciudad de Mexico into Mexico City but we can NEVER mess around with the Yankee English proper nouns including places in the US which are named in Spanish su
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0 Is anyone going to help me on this? Clive? MrPedantic? 05 0 00 Anybody? 010id 7
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0 Hi, 02 br
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00 I don't really have a comprehensive statement for you of how names have come about. Obviously, a lot of it is historical convention and accident, and for sure there is a certain element of cultural arrogance and imperialism involved. I do think that names are more fixed now, harder to change. We live in an age of records and writing, and in a 'global village'
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00 I don't really have a comprehensive statement for you of how names have come about. Obviously, a lot of it is historical convention and accident, and for sure there is a certain element of cultural arrogance and imperialism involved. I do think that names are more fixed now, harder to change. We live in an age of records and writing, and in a 'global village'
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0 Ooooops! 02 br
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00 I meant proper names [should 01 font 00 not 02 font 00 be changed], I left out the [not]! Sorry! 05 0 010id 10
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00 I meant proper names [should 01 font 00 not 02 font 00 be changed], I left out the [not]! Sorry! 05 0 010id 10
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0 Hi, 02 br
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00 The person who wrote the title for National Geographic probably thought the word in the name was spelled with a 'u'. 02 br
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00 You can write names in any way you please, there is no law against it. If you want to refer to Buenos Aires as Good Airs, that's fine by me, although the post office may possibly be unsure about where to deliver yo
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00 The person who wrote the title for National Geographic probably thought the word in the name was spelled with a 'u'. 02 br
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00 You can write names in any way you please, there is no law against it. If you want to refer to Buenos Aires as Good Airs, that's fine by me, although the post office may possibly be unsure about where to deliver yo
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