22 de novembro de 2011

Haves and have-nots

If people in the Anglosphere don’t have to call Germany Deutschland, Armenia Hayastan and South Korea Hanguk, why do they HAVE to call Ceylon Sri Lanka, Burma Myanmar and Byelorussia Belarus?

If people in the Anglosphere don’t have to call Munich München, Florence Firenze and Prague Praha, why do they HAVE to call Peking Beijing, Bombay Mumbai and Canton Guangzhou?