Living in Kiev: My first 3 months of observations

Re:Living in Kiev: My first 3 months of observations by koenigdavidmj on Monday February 06, 2017 @08:28PM (#13586137)

It's a bit artificial to expect place names to cross language boundaries unscathed. It's not an offense to anyone that München is called Munich by English speakers. In English, the city is known as Kiev. Anything else reduces the number of people who can read what you're writing.

-written in Seattle, Washington...or would you prefer I call it siʔaɫ?

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Re:Living in Kiev: My first 3 months of observations by to3m on Monday February 06, 2017 @09:23PM (#13586423)

Peking, Bombay, Upper Volta, Rhodesia and Burma have all managed to make the transition - and with more than a simple tweak to the transliteration to boot. So I don't see why we can't manage the same with Kiev?

Random article: http://www.businessinsider.com/kiev-or-kyiv-2014-1

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Re:Living in Kiev: My first 3 months of observations by free652 on Monday February 06, 2017 @09:30PM (#13586463)

Kyiv, Kyyiv or whatever is freaking impossible to pronounce for an English speaker. Should have gone with Kiiv, much easier to pronounce and somewhat closer to Ukrainian pronunciation.

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Re:Living in Kiev: My first 3 months of observations by flukus on Monday February 06, 2017 @10:37PM (#13586790)

We're still working on writing English cities in English, Gloucester, Leicester, etc.

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Re:Living in Kiev: My first 3 months of observations by _q1cj on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @01:37PM (#13591454)

Massachusetts is definitely still working on this... haha

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