Re: United Kindom != England

[Gerfried Fuchs <alfie@ist.org>]

* Ionel Mugurel Ciobîc? <I.M.Ciobica@TUe.nl> [2001-11-08 11:17]:
> In Romanian ``Marea Britanie'' means Great Britain, ``Anglia'' means
> England and ``Regatul Unit'' would mean United Kingdom.

 Well, I knew that I did made a mistake somewhere, thanks for finding
it :)

 Yes, it seems to be quite nitpicking what I sugguest - and we need to
find a common solution to it in a general way so we can write it down
next to both parts, the 'UK' and the 'GB'.

 If that solution means:
# Translate it to "United Kingdom" or "Great Britain", whatever you like,
# preverably the first.
then I'm o.k. with it.  It is just that current usage of "England" in
such translation simply is wrong - and I thought mentioning the other
think that bugs me personally can be addressed in that environment, too.
I hope that this is seen as looking forward to future translators that
might face the same problem and not just another "Alfie want's to annoy
us all with his nitpicks".

 Again - it's fine with me to use Great Britain, but I rather want a
general compromise on that than just say myself: "That's the way how to
do it!"  After all, I not even have applied for the webmaster team yet :)

 So long,
Alfie
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