Re: Swaziland becomes Eswatini

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:33 AM, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> wrote:


> Um, he's a king. He gets to do things like change the name of his
> country on a whim, and without asking his subjects. That's what absolute
> monarchs do.
>

What is more, this is not even like the switch from Central African Republic
to Central African Empire (since reverted).  All the king is doing is
telling people
to use the Swazi/siSwati name of the country in English as well.  This is
not
so different from switching from "Sandwich Islands" to "Hawaiian Islands".


> As I wrote, both ISO 3166 and apparently the government are using
> "eSwatini" in Swati-language contexts, but "Eswatini" in
> English-language contexts. It looked wrong to me too, but it's their
> call really.
>

inDeed, but words like "iMac" do look terrible in English at the beginning
of
sentences in particular.

-- 
John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        [email protected]
        "Not to know The Smiths is not to know K.X.U."  --K.X.U.

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