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cookerg t1_j6gylra wrote

I really wish that we could get rid of this silliness. If I as an English speaker say "Deutschland" or "ParEE" (Paris) people look at me strangely, but those are the actual names as spoken by the locals. At least with Beijing, the Chinese Government corrected how it was translated into English, to give a pronunciation that is closer to the actual Chinese pronunciation, than the old "Peking".

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