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To: HarborSentry
First, most Americans are monolingual.
Uh-oh; you used a non-English loanword there that combines two languages (Greek monos for “one, single” and Latin lingua for “tongue”) ☺
2 posted on 08/02/2016 11:50:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Schmartypants!

I’m only saying we use the same format we use for everything else. If Guantanamo’s Spanish name was more different (e.g. Deutshland), they’d probably keep the standard English spelling.

It’s just a bit childish to keep the accent for this. Even that would be okay (forex: this post is a bit flippant) if it wasn’t the press doing it, too. They’re probably breaking a rule in their style guides.


9 posted on 08/03/2016 12:28:50 AM PDT by HarborSentry
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