The only thing I can think of that would be comparable to this absurdity is if the BBC (or the Economist, or whoever) were to refer to the Irish President, not as Mary McAleese, but as Máire Pádraigín Bean Mhic Ghiolla Íosa, out of deference to the five people left alive in Ireland who still speak Gaelic as their primary language.
Nice work
It'd be nice if they could wrap their heads around the word "Taoiseach", mind you.
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The BBC is just silly.
- 22/06/2010 03:08:32 PM
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Ahem.
- 22/06/2010 03:26:42 PM
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Are you trying to get them to be able to pronounce it correctly or just use it?
- 22/06/2010 03:56:29 PM
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On that note
- 22/06/2010 06:17:56 PM
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And so are you
- 23/06/2010 01:02:07 AM
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Oh my God - this is one of the stupidest things I've seen posted on this site...ever.
- 23/06/2010 01:47:39 AM
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And still never able to beat you
- 23/06/2010 04:24:46 AM
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You seem to pretend there is a separate "Belorussian" people.
- 23/06/2010 06:02:12 AM
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If there is enough of people claiming they are what right do you have to say otherwise?
- 23/06/2010 06:54:28 AM
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