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To: hanamizu

These are the same idiots who unaccountably change the names of places without any warning. Like suddenly a city that has been called Bombay for a century of more is suddenly “Mumbai.” Or Peking becomes Beijing.


25 posted on 12/20/2024 9:25:02 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa

Peking becomes Beijing.


They didn’t actually change the name only how it is ‘officially’ spelled using Pinyin. Same thing happened with Mao Tse Tung —> Mao Zedong. And as for Mumbai, wait until ‘India’ becomes ‘Bharat’.


26 posted on 12/20/2024 9:38:17 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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