(Kiev is now Kyiv)

[Kim Braithwaite]

"Tee hee the new :-)"? No - at least I didn't intend it that way. It was 
meant to convey a diffuse, fuzzy, vaguely subtle put-down, in either 
direction. But nuances, kak izvestno - especially fuzzy ones - tend to get 
lost in the email. No harm done, I think.

On an earlier sub-topic: What is "characteristically American" about 
stressing a word on the first syllable? The Czechs put first-syllable stress 
on each and every word (including, I daresay, Moskva [pron. MOSK-va]). So do 
Hungarians. But never mind (tee hee).

Mr Kim Braithwaite, Translator

"Good is better than evil, because it's nicer" - Mammy Yokum (Al Capp)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jules Levin" <ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] (Kiev is now Kyiv)


> There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that when the Turkish government 
> informed the British Foreign
> Office that Constantinople should be called 'Istanbul', they were informed 
> that the name of the city
> in English was and would remain Constantinople.  (Alas, that GB is long 
> gone...)
> There was a popular song in the US in the 20's about Constantinople > 
> Istanbul, etc.
> I guess all this discussion is a message to wanna-be-important countries 
> that in the big leagues
> we don't worry about such trivia as what our cities are called in foreign 
> languages.
> By the way, is tee-hee the new :-)?
> Jules Levin
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