Re:Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
by rococode on Sunday February 17, 2019 @03:12AM
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Isn't that just how language works? When a name doesn't suit your language's writing system it's natural to adapt it in a way that's more accessible. English simply doesn't have an acute accent.
It's why people in English speaking countries are named Michael (or one of the 50+ alternatives) instead of the original מִיכָאֵל, or why BBC reports on Chinese President Xi Jinping instead of Chinese President 习近平.
Re:Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
by lelf on Sunday February 17, 2019 @07:37AM
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But it’s completely fine/effortless to use it in English, it’s even part of latin-1.
Fiancée résumé déjà vu touché.
Re:Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
by Jare on Sunday February 17, 2019 @11:58AM
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I'm spanish, with dual keyboard layout which means easy access to deadkeys for those chars, and I don't even bother putting the accent in my own name when I'm writing English.
Re:Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
by jabberthemutt on Sunday February 17, 2019 @03:31AM
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It is also natural to be attracted to sweet pictures of the other sex. But this whole article pushes the mindset that this is not ok. So I would argue that ignorance of proper spellings (in the same alphabet! Your examples are misleading) marginalizes them.
Re:Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
by int_19h on Sunday February 17, 2019 @04:45AM
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It's not the same alphabet. English alphabet is distinct from the Swedish alphabet, they just happen to use the same writing system.
Re:Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
by jabberthemutt on Sunday February 17, 2019 @06:45AM
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Sorry, second language English here. I thought it was obvious what I meant. é is very close in appearance and sound to e compared to some Hebrew(?) or Chinese.
Re:Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
by jabberthemutt on Sunday February 17, 2019 @03:27AM
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I too found that irritating. Especially since the deliberate misspelling of her name as 'Lenna' in Playboy.was explicitly mentioned.
Re:Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
by Zuider on Sunday February 17, 2019 @05:58PM
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But the article explicitly states that Lena Forsén herself requested the extra 'n' in the spelling of her name so that she would not have to hear it mispronounced as 'Leena'.
Re:Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
by FearNotDaniel on Monday February 18, 2019 @08:05PM
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I like to imagine a world where everybody refused to use Uber, on grounds of orthographic incorrectness. Would Lyft have won? Is deliberate misspelling okay as long as it's in your own language?
Re:Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
by paulnechifor on Sunday February 17, 2019 @02:49PM
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Yeah, I dislike this too. It's not as if you have to change your keyboard layout to write a foreign name. You can just copy paste it.
You'd think, having written a whole article about her, you'd be able to spell her name right. It's incredible to me how relaxed people in English speaking countries, particularly the US, are with removing and changing letters as they see fit.
I remember seeing someone on Reddit, for example, who had named their kid Soren, after Søren Kierkegaard, completely ignoring that it's not even the same name. Do people realize that these letters are different looking for a reason?