Re:ISO name change for Türkiye
by roxymusic1973 on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @04:15PM
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> Personal names will sometimes be translated - depending on when the person moved or decided to present as.
E.g. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_II_del_Reino_Unido
Or Cristoforo Colombo, aka Christopher Columbus
Historically it's more common than not. E.g. most names of European monarchs are translated.
Popes too. Pope John Paul II was Jan Pawel II in his native Poland, Giovanni Paolo in Italy, and so forth. Pope Francis is Francesco in Italian and Francisco in his native Spanish.
If a Pope has one most proper name, it would have to be his name in Latin: Ioannes Paulus II, Benedictus XVI, Franciscus.
Certainly.
I was recently reading a Spanish newspaper that referred to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Harry as Isabel and Enrique.
It was a little surprising since I’ve only ever seen the Spanish kings referred to as Juan Carlos and Felipe in English-language media, never by translations.
Anglicised spelling are probably often due to a change from a local alphabet to the one I'm using now.
My middle name is Olivier, by in English for a while I just translated it to Oliver.
Re:ISO name change for Türkiye
by jonathankoren on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @10:02PM
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I had a Chinese professor named “Da Ren”, but because his name was transliterated as “Daren”, he would just go as Daren for nonchinese, due to the collision.
I know of Indian colleagues who go by an English-sounding name that is at least somewhat close to their actual name. Others have anglicized a spelling that is phonetically close.
The main difference is that you can ask them what they prefer as they’re right there.
It’s harder to ask an entire country.