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Old 08-17-2010, 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by PiKA2001 View Post
Cringe @ the bolded. I think the proper name of places or people shouldn't be translated. I'll never call El Paso the pass or Las Vegas the meadows or the state of Montana the mountain

Might seem anal of me, but it's always been a pet peeve of mine.
So you call Japan Nippon and France Francia and Germany Deutscheland, right? Because it's not right to translate.
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