Hi there!
On 8 Jan 00, at 14:07, Michael Heydekamp wrote
about "OT: Moldova":
> >> In any case, there are others guys in Moldavia that are looking at
> >> these issues themselves.
>
> AVK> Officially this country is called "Moldova" now. It was Moldavia
> AVK> when it was a part of USSR. Just in order to be precise:-)
>
> Interesting and true for the international (English) name. I'm not 100%
> certain, but I think it is not true for the German language. There it
> always was and still is "Moldawien" (which again would translate in
> English to "Moldavia").
Oops... I neither know German nor I live in Moldova. Ask RIT labs
programmers, they do:-) As for us here, we call it Moldavia still. But then, we
write "Tallinn" as "Tallin" also (it's the capital of Estonia:-)). It's much simplier
to pronounce, after all:-) The same thing applies to, say, Paris (here it's called
Parizh) and London (we pronounce it with two "o"s):-))
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