Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>Patrick Andries wrote:
>
>
>Funny: I have just read a similar but opposite opinion on an Italian
>newsgroup. Somebody said: if really we must accept English terms such as
>"file" or "window", we should at list do the effort of pronouncing them
>according to Italian spelling: /'file/ and /vin'dOv/, rather than /'fail/ or
>/'windo:/.
>
It is an alternate way of doing. In fact, I believe in a middle way :
spell the word as they are pronounced in your language (which is usually
not the same as the original, very few Germans pronounce English
loan-words in German as native English speakers would (even assuming the
wealth of English pronunciations).
>>A way to say welcome.
>>
>
>Uhmm... I hope such way of saying welcome will never be applied to humans.
>In the case I move to China, I would not like to have my hair painted black
>and my eyes shape modified with surgery. :-)
>
Remember the old adage : when in Rome...
Patrick
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