Re: Myanmar (formerly Burma)

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 Veronique <veroniqueunique@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Part of the oddness for me is it is the English name for the country,
> which sounds like of like Germany insisting us auslanders call it
> Deutschland.

Well, shouldn't we call it "Deutschland"? Why don't English speakers 
refer to certain countries by the names natives use, e.g., España, 
Italia, et al.? We don't call a certain Central American nation "The 
Savior," nor do we call a certain South American country "Equator."

And we don't refer to the capital of a U.S. commonwealth as "Saint John, 
Rich ****t."

-- 
D.F. Manno | dfmanno@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words
are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by
destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people
will solemnly vote against their own interests." (Gore Vidal)