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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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2 February 2006 - 9:56 pm
NBC has been running ads for a month now advertising that the upcoming winter Olympics are going to be in "Torino, Italy." This confuses me. I would understand it if they were calling the place Torino, Italia or Turin, Italy, but why would they mix Anglicized and non-Anglicized names together? Do they think they can be authentic with regard to the city name because we're Americans and we don't know where Torino/Turin is but that calling Italy Italia would be too confusing? It's just weird to me. I've grown up hearing this place referred to as Turin (think The Shroud of Turin) and it strikes me as odd that we would clean up the city name without also cleanign up the country name.
Posted by on 2 February 2006 at 9:52 PM
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