You probably saw the long discussion about Turin vs. Torino over at superplin: http://superplin.livejournal.com/302256.html?nc=71
and I guess I feel the same way about other uses of terms from other languages--that Americans need all the exposure we can get to the fact that most people speak many languages. I understand the feeling that using a phrase, pronounced correctly, from another language, is pretentious--but couldn't it maybe just be trying to defer to other people? Maybe not.
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Date: 2006-02-12 07:42 pm (UTC)and I guess I feel the same way about other uses of terms from other languages--that Americans need all the exposure we can get to the fact that most people speak many languages. I understand the feeling that using a phrase, pronounced correctly, from another language, is pretentious--but couldn't it maybe just be trying to defer to other people? Maybe not.