a1245: Re: a1225: Re: a1221: Spelling of Haiti (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Robert Lawless <robert.lawless@wichita.edu>

Actually pretty much every atlas in English will list the country as "Ivory
Coast." Language is a social activity, and, of course, embassies may be a
part of that social activity; but it is very rare that "foreigners" are
able to tell people how to use their own language.

At 03:52 PM 3/13/2002 -0600, you wrote:

>From: Yacine Khelladi <yacine@yacine.net>
>
>
>that a way of seing things, some countries do not like their name change
>or translated , Cote Ivoire  made trhough its embassies a campaign so
>their name spells Cote Ivoire in all languages, not costa de marfil nor
>ivory cost, its a name not a word ... up to ayisyens to tell how they
>want to be called ... Y.