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Re: Thaddeus Kosciusko

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Post by 0ld »

rkachowski wrote: post #7
gambiting wrote: post #3

I'm curious why the hell is his name anglicised. It should be Tadeusz Kościuszko. In reverse it would be like writing Albert Einstein as Albert Ajsztain in Polish, because that's how it's pronounced. No one ever does this.

In the exact same way that people say "Yuri Gagarin" instead of Ю́рий Гага́рин. I work with several Polish people who intentionally anglicise their names due to the phonetics being awkward / not existing in English (E.g. Tomasz Vs Thomas).The same with German and Chinese people - it's either for convenience or a best approximation.

Btw, noone would really write Юрий Гагарин with the stress marks. Except for wikipedia where you copypasted it from

Re: Thaddeus Kosciusko

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Post by pndy »

gambiting wrote: post #3

I'm curious why the hell is his name anglicised. It should be Tadeusz Kościuszko. In reverse it would be like writing Albert Einstein as Albert Ajsztain in Polish, because that's how it's pronounced. No one ever does this.

You should hear how Australians are pronouncing Góra Kościuszki (Snowy Mountains, almost 400km south from Sydney) - it's something like "kazyjus-szko"

Re: Thaddeus Kosciusko

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Post by cosmodisk »

gambiting wrote: post #3

I'm curious why the hell is his name anglicised. It should be Tadeusz Kościuszko. In reverse it would be like writing Albert Einstein as Albert Ajsztain in Polish, because that's how it's pronounced. No one ever does this.

We do this in Lithuanian all the time.For instance, Albert Einstein would become Albertas Enšteinas. Donald Trump - Donaldas Trumpas.

Re: Thaddeus Kosciusko

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Post by [deleted] »

rkachowski wrote: post #7
gambiting wrote: post #3

I'm curious why the hell is his name anglicised. It should be Tadeusz Kościuszko. In reverse it would be like writing Albert Einstein as Albert Ajsztain in Polish, because that's how it's pronounced. No one ever does this.

In the exact same way that people say "Yuri Gagarin" instead of Ю́рий Гага́рин. I work with several Polish people who intentionally anglicise their names due to the phonetics being awkward / not existing in English (E.g. Tomasz Vs Thomas).The same with German and Chinese people - it's either for convenience or a best approximation.

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Re: Thaddeus Kosciusko

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Post by jacobush »

cosmodisk wrote: post #13
gambiting wrote: post #3

I'm curious why the hell is his name anglicised. It should be Tadeusz Kościuszko. In reverse it would be like writing Albert Einstein as Albert Ajsztain in Polish, because that's how it's pronounced. No one ever does this.

We do this in Lithuanian all the time.For instance, Albert Einstein would become Albertas Enšteinas. Donald Trump - Donaldas Trumpas.

Donald-ass Trump-ass, how rude!

Re: Thaddeus Kosciusko

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Post by rkachowski »

0ld wrote: post #11
rkachowski wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the exact same way that people say "Yuri Gagarin" instead of Ю́рий Гага́рин. I work with several Polish people who intentionally anglicise their names due to the phonetics being awkward / not existing in English (E.g. Tomasz Vs Thomas).The same with German and Chinese people - it's either for convenience or a best approximation.

Btw, noone would really write Юрий Гагарин with the stress marks. Except for wikipedia where you copypasted it from

Do you feel that invalidates the point?

Re: Thaddeus Kosciusko

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Post by satori99 »

> ... you probably haven’t heard of Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kosciuszko. Nor can you spell it or pronounce it; join the club, but we’re working on it.

The largest mountain in Australia is named after him.

So most Australians know, and can pronounce, his surname at the very least.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kosciuszko

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