Thursday, April 5, 2007

Google rocks!

I just noticed that in Google Maps, if you look at other countries, their names are in the native language. Oesterreich instead of Austria, Espana instead of Spain.

And Greece and Japan are just awesome.

This is how a global society should refer to different countries, instead of localized bastard pronunciations of country and city names. NPR reporters always pronounce Latin American countries and cities with a Spanish pronunciation. I believe every city should get that treatment. I want to hear TV and radio reporters pronounce Paris, France with a nasal accent, and drop the s.

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