What's the point? You guys rape the Latin language. Cicero is apparently pronounced Sisero instead of Kikero. Mark Anthony instead of Marcus Antonius. WTF?
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Anonymous2008-09-16 12:14
>Studying Latin. What's the point?
I guess that's how it goes.
But indeed, they surely have a very special pronunciation skill, not only for Latin. When I recently replayed God of War, I died a little inside everytime Cray-tos, See-Yous, Per-See-Pho-nee or the others where mentioned.
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Anonymous2008-09-18 13:50
it's easy to explain: americans suck at foreign languages...that's all
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Anonymous2008-09-18 15:18
It's not really common practice any more. Nowadays we just use the name in its original language, though existing anglicisms survive.
What about place names? In your view are changes such as Moskvá→Moscow acceptable, or should we stop using those too?
As for loanwords that aren't proper nouns, I'm all for anglicising them. English pronunciation is irregular enough as it is.