Well looks like YC is stepping up their game to get a bite of the future.
Byte, you mean?
YC Interviews in India
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bangalore is the English name. My city is called Dublin in English and Baile Átha Cliath in our native language of Irish. As an Irishman I understand better than most the resentment towards the English but really this is not a battle worth fighting. Both names are correct in their respective languages.
I don't have any resentment towards English. The city has been around for as long as the English language and nobody local never called it with the anglicized name if anything it would be more of a correction.
My point was more that every language uses different names for places. It's like saying we can't call Germany Germany anymore because Germans call it Deutschland.
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#13Bengalūru, it has been 14 year since the name changed officially would appreciate if people stopped using the anglicized name of our city.
Lots of city names are translated.
Even in India people would probably say "Rome" instead of "Roma", "Moscow" instead of "Moskvá".
And it's not only in English, Italian would say "Tolosa" instead of "Toulouse", German would say "Mailand" instead of "Milan", French would say "Cracovie" instead of "Kraków" an so on...
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#14Bengalūru, it has been 14 year since the name changed officially would appreciate if people stopped using the anglicized name of our city.
And when you talk (in English or Kannada) about Rome, do you write (and say) 'Roma'? When you talk about Moscow, do you say 'Moskvá'?
(Even closer to home, do you say 'naaii dillii'?)
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bangalore is the English name. My city is called Dublin in English and Baile Átha Cliath in our native language of Irish. As an Irishman I understand better than most the resentment towards the English but really this is not a battle worth fighting. Both names are correct in their respective languages.
I don't have any resentment towards English. The city has been around for as long as the English language and nobody local never called it with the anglicized name if anything it would be more of a correction.
My take on this:
Though Bangalore is a relatively new name, it has been deeply ingrained in recent collective memory and literature. So it needs some time to change. Other cases in point, Bombay -> Mumbai. Madras -> Chennai, Calcutta -> Kolkata. While these changes have been adopted in some circles, the anglized form is still in use in many places. Especially, places and instances that have history pertaining to the past few centuries.
Also, in IT field, Bangalore symbolizes more than the city. It is a standin for the Indian IT industry and it's boom in general. It has a certain connotation and degree of recognizability that may be lost when using Bengaluru. Still with time, it too would change.
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#17It's amazing to see how people are fighting over city names on a YC thread. Just amazing! When we have problems like climate change and global warming to solve, please by all means let's first decide the name of the city!
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#18It's amazing to see how people are fighting over city names on a YC thread. Just amazing! When we have problems like climate change and global warming to solve, please by all means let's first decide the name of the city!
To remind you, people also fight over if Thanos was right on the internet.
Not everyone is supposed to talk about the big problems like climate change all the time. That's kind of boring.
My two cents though.
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#19Bengalūru, it has been 14 year since the name changed officially would appreciate if people stopped using the anglicized name of our city.
'Bangalore' vs 'Bengaluru' by people of Karnataka - the state of which Bangalore is capital of.
Bangalore: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=IN-KA&q=bangalo...
Bengaluru: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=IN-KA&q=bengalu...
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#20Bengalūru, it has been 14 year since the name changed officially would appreciate if people stopped using the anglicized name of our city.
This is not the right place to show your love for the name. We should be happy about YC considering Bangalore/Bengaluru as a place to conduct interviews. Your point deviates the intention of the post.