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Old 04-01-2001, 09:08 AM   #53
Yorick
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Join Date: January 7, 2001
Location: Breukelen (over the river from New Amsterdam)
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Originally posted by Yorick:
As Europe unifies I think you'll find it becomes more important for proper communication and administration to refer to a language, place or people with one name rather than all the different translations.

So whose language do you pick when deciding the single name? You would hope what the speakers call it. Whose name for a town? Hopefully what the locals refer to it as.

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