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The Latinizing of Names
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this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2026
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Eh, as long as it's just the proper noun, I don't really care that much. Languages can have their own versions of nouns based on the cultural context at the time. Is calling Deutschland Germany a problem? Zhongguo China? Nah.
You wanna call Shakespeare something different, go for it, it just means he was important enough to have a moniker in another language.
It's a bad analogy because calling Deutschland Germany doesn't make you think Germany is an English concept, whereas rebranding all scientists in a whitewashed manner projects an image of all scientific breakthroughs being owed to the west.
That a far more complex, multifaceted issue, TBF, but I can understand your feelings and they're valid. ๐๐ผ