From kde-i18n-doc Thu Jul 06 16:52:19 2000 From: Logi Ragnarsson Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 16:52:19 +0000 To: kde-i18n-doc Subject: Re: Macedonia X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-i18n-doc&m=96290962427631 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1" --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 07:42:52PM +0100, Marko Samastur wrote: > Some think Slovenia is part of Russia. Thinking doesn't make it so. >=20 > It's true that there is a region named Macedonia. Should a country > therefore change a name? UN with a (little) help of Greece thinks so, > some of us don't. I have a tendency to think that people should be allowed to decide what their country is called, strange clauses in their constitusions notwithstanding. Should f.ex. Poland be allowed to object to the idea of Germany and have it called the former Austrian Province of Germany? Not to mention that pretty much anything in Europe has been a part of several empires in history. In fact, Austria should be the former German Province of Austria too, just for the symmetry of it. This just gets too weird. I would go with "The Republic of Macedonia" just to distinguish it from the Greek region of the same name, but who really cares which "empire" it was most recently part of? (BTW, this entire thing makes me happy to live in a country that noone has ever been bothered to invade :) Logi, from the former Danish amt of Iceland. --=20 Logi Ragnarsson PGP/GPG key ID: 1024R/42935585 --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iQCVAwUBOWS5Q0qnHCFCk1WFAQHXYwP+NpcgeWy8Q6/DKxu1Jp3zhhgiv2G0/vxo 8Dah1B6fqZfZjlGKPq00zVFA3Y6NU0nmWJB3+yxa3U5wUEF6FTC5FX+28EDR+of9 +JIRWn3hhEoWr4Juxf/RqQuXU+5U5fGsJihzAgAv6KJmgYDCqsOJFRxI86bflVEz av04JWtE2l4= =FYgf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1--