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Re:Endianness, a constant source of conflict for decades by simtel20 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @06:56AM (#28219611)
It's a hard problem in a way. If my language is localized to English, am I more likely to understand the native pronunciation of a street, or the English mispronunciation?
Re:Endianness, a constant source of conflict for decades by PennRobotics on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @12:19PM (#28223430)
That's true. To extend this idea, should you pronounce someone's name as they pronounce it? Even if you've only known it one way?

(The German Michael is kinda... Michh-aye-ehl'.)

Re:Endianness, a constant source of conflict for decades by simtel20 on Thursday August 19, 2021 @01:15PM (#28236533)
I don't understand if you're presenting this question broadly, in a vacuum? Or if you're still in the context of your question about (mis-)pronunciation of streets etc. while providing navigation for a driver whose chosen language is not the same language as the current location, and who it may be safe to assume cannot understand the local languages' pronunciation even when the alphabet is similar (e.g. an English speaker in a Portuguese speaking country is very unlikely to understand if the navigayor natively pronounces "rua da Heitor do Rio do Engenho", a name I just made up that may exist somewhere, which I think demonstrates the difficulty I'm talking about.)